Kenya; Portugal; South Africa Remote (Global)

JUMO is hiring a Junior Software Engineer

About the Role

This role involves developing and maintaining software solutions within a collaborative engineering environment, focusing on scalability, reliability, and innovation while supporting business objectives through technical excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code across multiple platforms
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define technical requirements
  • Participate in agile ceremonies including planning and retrospectives
  • Debug and resolve technical issues in production environments
  • Contribute to the design and architecture of new features
  • Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency
  • Support deployment processes and monitor system performance
  • Work with backend services and APIs to enable seamless integrations
  • Assist in writing automated tests to improve reliability
  • Document technical specifications and implementation details
  • Engage in knowledge-sharing sessions with team members
  • Follow security best practices in all development activities
  • Optimize application performance and response times
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and frameworks
  • Contribute to database design and query optimization
  • Assist in maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Identify and implement improvements in development workflows
  • Collaborate on incident response and root cause analysis
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards
  • Support integration of third-party services and tools
  • Participate in technical onboarding for new team members
  • Work with monitoring and logging systems to detect issues
  • Contribute to technical decision-making within the team
  • Help maintain development environments and tooling
  • Engage in prototyping for new product concepts

Nice to Have

  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Familiarity with message queues and event-driven architectures
  • Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus or Grafana
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Internship experience in a technology-driven company
  • Knowledge of mobile application development
  • Understanding of machine learning concepts
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools
  • Participation in hackathons or coding competitions

Compensation

Competitive salary with performance-based incentives

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexible scheduling

Team

Collaborative engineering team working in agile squads

Our Tech Stack

  • We use a microservices architecture hosted on Google Cloud Platform
  • Primary languages include Java, Python, and JavaScript
  • We leverage Kubernetes for container orchestration
  • Data stores include PostgreSQL, Redis, and Bigtable
  • Monitoring is handled through Stackdriver and custom dashboards

Growth and Development

  • Engineers are encouraged to lead small projects early
  • Regular tech talks and internal workshops are hosted
  • Budget allocated for courses and certifications
  • Mentorship program pairs junior developers with senior engineers
  • Opportunities to rotate across different product areas

Available for qualified candidates

About company
JUMO

We provide the plug-and-play infrastructure behind a new generation of data orientated financial products.

JUMO was founded in 2015 and is now the market leading infrastructure provider in Africa powering banks to deliver a new generation of credit and savings products to millions of entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

By building software infrastructure that can flexibly be applied by banks, mobile money operators, and digital platforms, JUMO unlocks new revenue streams for partners, reaches untapped customers, and delivers real financial impact in emerging markets.

Whether you’re seeking strong, risk-adjusted capital returns, aiming to grow mobile wallet usage or growing customer loyalty with financial services, JUMO’s proven AI-driven technology offers the lowest cost, fastest time-to-market, and highest governance standards in real-time digital lending and savings.

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