Senior Front End Developer - Jumia (Full Time)
Jumia
- Lagos, Lagos State
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work closely with a multidisciplinary team (Backend developers, DevOps, QA engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
- Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
- Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications
- Take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
- Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems.
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Write and test interactive, clean, secure and efficient solutions
- Help maintain a high-level quality code by reviewing your teammates' code
- Continuously improve our code base, systems and processes
- Keen to learn new technologies and have ideas about how we can make things better
- Being passionate, self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose
- Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team
- A professional with +5 years of frontend web experience
- Proficient with at least one widely adopted single page application (SPA) architecture
- Vanilla Javascript and modern frameworks and platforms such as AngularJS, Ember, ReactJS, VueJS and/or Node.js
- Know module bundlers and task runners such as Webpack, Parcel, Rollup, Browserify, Grunt or Gulp
- Creating a testable code and make testing a priority
- Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
- Passionate for coaching other engineers and building a strong team culture
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders