Jumia is Africa’s leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC.
Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, offering excellent opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment. Its economic growth has enabled innovative businesses to flourish and this is where Jumia steps in.
We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Senior PHP Developer
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
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
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Social Media Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities
- 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:
- Manage day-to-day reactive and proactive communications on all key social media channels (FB, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram etc.)
- Create content calendars and schedules based on the relevancy of trends, promotions, and social activity
- Generate, edit, publish and share daily content across all channels daily
- Continually optimize company pages within each platform
- Develop paid social media campaigns and make sure they are executed properly and on-time across relevant social media channels
- Review competitive social media content and creative, continuously benchmarking other top social media brands and recommending optimizations
- Continually evaluate the Social Media and digital landscape for innovative/new platforms being launched to determine viability for Jumia Brands
- Support the acquisition or production of photographs and eventually videos
- Reviewing and moderating conversation with customers on social channels
- Maintain regular reporting cadence for social media, assessing KPIs and campaign performance
- Support Marketing team with all recaps, reports and programs Identify strategic opportunities to engage target audiences – where are relevant discussions taking place?
- Who are influencers in the ecommerce community that the brand can engage with
Professional Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism or Business required.
- 8+ years in social media or agency communication experience required, work in both talent acquisition and brand communications desired
- Excellent writer with experience in multiple writing styles (business, Digital/Social, marketing, technical)
- Knowledge of social media communities, Google Analytics, Facebook Exchange and Account Manager, Spredfast (or equivalent social media listening/analysis program)
- Good knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, primarily Premiere Pro and Photoshop, but not essential
- Familiar with social scheduling software such as Hootsuite and Tweetdeck.
- Knowledgeable about SEO practices.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of Social Media platforms (Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, etc.), their respective users and how each platform can be most effectively utilized.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities
- The Software Quality Assurance Analyst is responsible for creating and implementing testing in support of software development requirements.
- This position ensures the quality, reliability, integrity, and performance of all software products produced for end user consumption by validating that software performs to established guidelines.
In particular you will:
- Contribute to Test Plans
- Analyze, review and assess user requirements, specifications and testability models
- Create Test Case specifications
- Implement tests on all test levels (from design to the execution), evaluate the results and document the deviations from expected results
- Prepare and acquire test data
- Use test tools as required
- Implement Project test documentation and reports
- Improve and implement QA methodologies
- Implement company Test Process within international projects
- Respect and follow the code of conduct, general rules and principles of the company.
- Fulfill other duties which are necessary for company wellbeing, safety and security.
Professional Skills & Qualifications
- At least 2 years working experience as Quality Assurance/Software Tester, preferably in Agile environment
- Knowledge about software lifecycle, test processes and web-based Software Product Assurance
- High level understanding of data management, e.g. MS SQL or other tools
- Experience in Ecommerce is an advantage
- Higher education in IT, Software development or equivalent.
- Proficiency in English. both written and verbal
- Solution oriented and proactive attitude
- Likes problem analysis and solving
- Eager to work in team environment and share knowhow – Easily adapts to new situations and changes
- Has a keen attention to detail and is organised.
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
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Manager, Fixed Asset and General Ledger
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- To ensure that fixed assets, prepayments, accruals and the company’s accounts receivable position are properly stated.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the day to day administration, maintenance and development of the Company’s Fixed Assets and General Ledger.
- Assist with the development and implementation of policies, procedures and processes as they relate to asset management and asset accounting systems.
- Track and record movement of all assets including acquisition, depreciation, transfers, disposal/ impairment of assets in accordance with company policies and IFRS.
- Liaise and work closely with relevant departments to ensure all policies, procedures and processes relating to assets are in line with IFRS and the company’s overall direction on assets.
- Analyse General Ledger Accounts, to identify costs that should be capitalized and included in fixed assets
- Prepare capitalization entries and monitor reports to ensure that assets are correctly accounted for into the fixed assets records.
- Plan and co-ordinate physical verification of the Company’s Assets.
- Reconcile the fixed asset register or sub-ledger, or the subsidiary asset management system to the general ledger control account for each class of fixed assets, and resolving any reconciling items
- Maintain files for all supporting documentation for fixed assets and capital projects
- Provide information for fixed asset reporting, such as summarizing financial activity for inclusion in the property, plant and equipment section of the financial statements
- Coordinate the physical inventory process for fixed assets.
Professional Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, with 8 years minimum in a fast-paced corporate environment preferably in a similar role
- Professional qualification like ICAN, ACCA, ACA is a plus
- Good knowledge of IFRS, local and global Management Accounting Trends and practices
- Excellence in analytical and logical reasoning
- Good Knowledge of Fixed Asset Management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word& Power point)
- Proficiency in the use of an ERP.
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.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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