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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Information And Communication Equipment 46.51 - Wholesale of computers, computer peripheral equipment and software
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 December 2021
Employment effect (start)
2 December 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
Nigeria-based technology company Jumia will recruit 100 specialised professionals for its technological development centre in the city of Porto, Portugal. The company already has 350 professionals at the centre, which represent 7% of the company workforce. Jumia is looking for managers, software engineers and cybersecurity engineers.
Jumia's first technology centre, in Porto, was developed with the support of Rocket Internet, a German start-up incubator and one of the company's first investors. This reinforcement of the technological centre in Porto follows the investment made in a new technological centre in the city of Cairo, Egypt.
Jumia is operational in 11 African countries through a marketplace, a logistics platform and a fintech platform.
Eurofound (2021), JUMIA, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 106017, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106017.
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