Current Vacancies at Jumia Nigeria, 20th June, 2018

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Jumia Group is a leading global incubator of start-ups. We started operating in Africa in 2012 and since then have launched multiple successful companies, such as Jumia, Jumia Market, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs, Jumia Car, Jumia Services. We are currently looking for talented people to join our team and embark on an exciting journey in the core of business development. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Senior Systems Analyst Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time Job Description The primary responsibilities for this position includes both development and systems analysis for Jumia Services applications to implement business change requests. You will play a lead role as part of the larger Technology group and help implement scalable solutions. You will ensure that all system changes meet business, quality and architectural guidelines. Successful candidate will have exceptional analytical skills and will be expected to have hands-on programming skills in building enterprise applications. In particular, you will:

• Support systems analysis and development activities based on business and technical requirements, and interact with other teams on systems integration activities.
• Prepare documentation such as functional specifications, technical specifications, user manuals, etc.
• Support and troubleshooting for Jumia services Systems tools
• Fully manage Access Control List and Jumia services user administration
• Ensure provision of effective and efficient application support to production systems and discuss resolutions on production problems
• Identify creative and scalable technology solutions for issues encountered by the development teams.
• Participate and contribute to multiple cross functional meetings with technical and business stakeholders.
• Assist application roadmap development and help implement technology best practices.
• Work with onshore and offshore development teams for project implementations.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal teams to achieve assigned tasks.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• At least 5 years’ experience in system development.
• Knowledge of PHP, Javascript, HTML and MySQL will be an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of object oriented programming and software engineering fundamentals
• Experience working on e-commerce or other transactional sites
• Good analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in developing large scale mission critical systems an added advantage.

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply     Job Title: Senior Java Developer - JumiaPay Location: Lagos Job Description

• Be part of an agile team that develops smart logistics solutions on a service oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies

In particular you will:

• 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
• Write module, well-organized code.
• 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
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems

Required Skills:

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in web development with Object Oriented Programming
• At least 3 years of experience in Java/J2EE development with Spring framework, especially with modules such as Web, JMS, Transactions with Core Container;
• Strong experience with Maven;
• Strong experience with ORM (Hibernate) and SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL);
• Experienced in web server-side and client-side technologies
• A strong sense for code quality, following/defining coding guidelines and experience with Unit-Testing and SonarQube;
• Clear understanding of the Internet Protocol Suite
• Experienced in Version Control technologies (GIT, SVN)
• Aware of Performance and Security topics on web development

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply     Job Title: Social Media Manager Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time Job Description

• In this position, you will be responsible for supporting Jumia with the development, execution and maintenance of social media engagement, monitoring, reporting, and analysis within the Marketing team.
• This position ensures all social media content and communication is in brand alignment.

In particular you will:

• Develop the local social media strategy for Jumia Nigeria in alliance with the central strategy and group goals
• Plan and execute the social media content and activities calendar to engage online followers, drive conversations and turn followers into recurring customers of Jumia Nigeria
• Lead Social Media executives as well as assign tasks across social media team
• Coordinate cross functional relationships between commercial team, graphic design team, digital marketing and social media team
• Analyze and report social media performance for Jumia Nigeria
• Developing content marketing and distribution strategies with key partners and reporting strategies and progress to senior marketing management.
• Maintain a constant awareness of social media trends locally as well as internationally and incorporate these trends in Jumia Nigeria's social media content
• Working with the central Marketing and Communications teams to ensure alignment with company-wide best practices and policies

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, or Business required.
• 7+ years of social media and campaign management, publishing, writing and content creation required (brand or agency).
• Success with marketing global brands via social media, transforming creative ideas into successful campaigns across multiple brands and platforms with the ability to deliver results; engagement, growth, brand sentiment, credibility, innovation
• Strong, senior relationships with social media platforms. Self-starter with a hands-on approach, a good sense of prioritization and the ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment.
• Familiar with social scheduling software such as Hootsuite and Tweetdeck.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Social Media platforms (Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, etc.), their audience and how each platform can be most effectively utilized.

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce 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

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply     Job Title: Senior PHP Developer Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time Department: Engineering Responsibilities

• Be part of an agile team that develops smart logistics solutions on a service oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies

In particular you will:

• 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
• Write module, well-organized code.
• 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
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in web development with Object Oriented Programming
• Excellent knowledge of PHP5 or other OOP language
• Proficient with MySQL or other leading RDBMS
• Experienced in web server-side and client-side technologies
• Working knowledge of MVC frameworks (Zend Framework, Yii, Symfony2 or similar)
• Clear understanding of the Internet Protocol Suite
• Experienced in Version Control technologies (GIT, SVN)
• Aware of Performance and Security topics on web development

Required Skills:

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply     Job Title: Data Insight Analyst, SQL & Excel Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time Responsibilities

• This role is will manage all facets of customer experience data – from web analytics to voice of customer data.
• The incumbent will identify business problems and customer pain points, formulate hypotheses, develop analytic plans, conduct the analysis, synthesize conclusions into actionable solutions, and help implement recommendations for customer experience program

In particular, you will:

• Develop actionable insights from multiple data sources
• Quantify the impact of programs and campaigns through reporting and analysis
• Oversee analytics for all channels and voice of customer programs (e.g., NPS, etc.)
• Partner with key stakeholders to provide data-driven insights to inform business and CXP decisions
• Lead the development and execution of a periodic reporting framework in collaboration with other team members
• Conduct relevant customer behavior analysis, competitive analysis and industry research
• Derive insights from data to suggest, create, and execute tests that drive improvements to conversion rates and customer satisfaction scores
• Create holistic dashboards by pulling data from different data sources
• Provide expertise and guidance to business on:
  • Segmentation
  • Campaign analysis, analysis of performance, benchmarking
  • Propensity-to-buy and response modelling
  • Attribution models and reporting
• Understand relevant technology applications

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Statistics, Engineering, or other related discipline.
• 5+ years of statistical analysis or data analysis experience.
• Data Modeling, Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables & Macros)
• Experience with at least one key analytics tools to develop actionable insights from multiple data sources (e.g., R, Revolution R, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB, MicroStrategy, Tableau)
• High level understanding of data management, e.g. MS SQL, or other tools
• Knowledgeable of statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, and multivariate testing (A/B testing)

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce 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

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply

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