Internship Global Program - Backend Developer (PHP)

About Jumia:

Jumia is the leading pan-Africa e-commerce platform. Founded in 2012, Jumia's mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to consumers, while helping businesses grow as they use our platform to reach and serve consumers.

Our platforms among others, comprises of:

• Marketplace, where we integrate with our sellers and manage products;
• Mall, which is our core e-com platform that enables customers to buy products;
• Logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and our external clients;
• Payment service, which facilitates transactions among participants active on our platform in our markets.
  
  

Through our online platforms, consumers can access a wide range of physical and digital goods and services, fashion, electronics, beauty products and also hotel and flight bookings or restaurant delivery.

With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating a sustainable impact for Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs and skills, and empowering a new generation.

We are looking for a PHP Developer Intern responsible for developing features in a back-office for an online marketplace. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, maintaining and improving the database and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests through API. You will also be interacting with back-office UI therefore a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

What you will be doing

• Build efficient, testable and reusable PHP APIs
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Maintain develop back-office functionalities
• Write "clean", well-designed code
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
  
  

What we are looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field
• Some academic experience in software development in PHP
• Basic knowledge in MySQL/MariaDB
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Basic knowledge of front-end technologies
• Good problem-solving skills
• Good time management
• English proficiency
  
  

We Offer:

• 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
  
  

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