PAULO GONÇALVESFront-End Engineer

Native of Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, Portugal.
With more than 20 years of professional experience, I am currently a Principal Front-End Engineer at Porto Tech Center - Jumia, focused on building scalable, high-performance web applications.
I lead front-end architecture, define technical direction, and promote best practices while leveraging modern frameworks and tooling.
Driven by performance and user experience, I collaborate across teams to deliver robust, user-centric solutions and tackle complex engineering challenges.
Core Competences
Professional Experience
Jumia Porto Tech Center
11 years 8 months
Principal Front-End Engineer
Oct 2022 – Present · 3 years 9 months
Porto, Portugal
Expertise in delivering scalable, high-performance applications across SPA, SSR, and CSR architectures. Specialized in semantic HTML5, accessibility (A11y), SEO, and styling systems with SCSS, CSS-in-JS, Utility CSS, Atomic BEM, TailwindCSS, shadcn-u...
Engineering Manager / Lead Front-End Engineer
Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 year 2 months
Porto, Portugal
Led engineering teams across Jumia Mall — managed a full-stack team (1 FE + 2 BE + 2 Android + 1 iOS + 2 QAA + 1 PO) and a front-end team (4 FE + 1 QAE + 1 PO). Drove technical execution, code quality, and delivery timelines.
Lead Front-End Engineer
Jun 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 year 3 months
Portugal
Lead Front-End Engineer for Jumia Mall. Architected front-end solutions, established best practices, and mentored junior engineers while delivering e-commerce features at scale.
Web Engineer (Senior Front-End Engineer)
Apr 2016 – Jun 2020 · 4 years 3 months
Porto, Portugal
Front-end and back-end development of e-commerce solutions for desktop and mobile (including Opera Mini). Built micro-services clients, Jumia Blog, and Jumia Group website. Worked with JavaScript, ECMAScript 5/6, AngularJS (1/2/4), React, Redux, Prea...
Senior Front-End Developer
Nov 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 year 6 months
Porto, Portugal
E-commerce solutions front-end development for desktop and mobile foundation. Built with Node, Gulp, HTML5, SASS, BEM, JavaScript, jQuery, Ext JS, PHP, MySQL, and Solr.
Rocket Internet GmbH
2 years 6 months
Advanced Developer
Jun 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 years 6 months
E-commerce solutions front-end and back-end development. Worked with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Ext JS, Zend Framework, Yii Framework, Solr, Nginx, Apache2, Memcache, and RabbitMQ.
Myone - Comunicação Multimédia
3 years 8 months
Multimedia Engineer
Oct 2008 – May 2012 · 3 years 8 months
Vila Nova de Gaia
Back-end and front-end development (PHP, MySQL, JSON, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, CSS3, HTML5, Flash AS3). UI/UX design (Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, Corel Draw). Project management.
Medula - Design de Comunicação
1 year 1 month
Web Designer | New Media Developer
Sep 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 year 1 month
Vila Nova de Gaia
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AS3 developer. Interface and web designer. Project management.
Freelance
3 years 8 months
Freelance Web Developer/Designer
Jan 2004 – Aug 2007 · 3 years 8 months
Freelance web development and design projects. Full-stack development, client communication, and project delivery.
For more technical details and experience, please visit my LinkedIn profile.