Job summary 

As Front-end Software Developer, you will be responsible for building new Sparkers solutions and enhancing the existing ones, in coordination with the project management and product teams. You will help translate customers’ needs into innovative and leading-edge technical solutions for our clients with a high degree of autonomy. You will also be responsible for the maintenance and follow-up of deployed solutions and offer second level support.

About us

Sparkers delivers market insights, product tracking and custom solutions to the Entertainment Industry. We do this by measuring Sales and Streaming Audiences. 

We are established around the world : Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Yerevan, Sydney, … Maybe we are next to you ? ?

At Sparkers, we are looking for people who are both people and data oriented, a team player with a keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills, someone with great flexibility and self-organization. 

Most importantly, our collaborators must be open-minded, honest, communicative, and positive with just a spark of craziness ! You should have a strong desire to help and a positive attitude ! Work life balance and having a family team spirit is important for us.

If you share our interest in gaming, we’d love to hear from you. ?  

About your future team

You'll be a part of our Dev Team: your future colleagues will be Luis, Laurent, Guillaume, Alejandro, Jérôme, … 

Location

We are looking for our next colleague for our office based near Brussels, in La Hulpe. ?

Your responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain efficient solutions. Focus on simplicity, scalability, and harnessing data effectively for the business.
• Own features development: from a provided set of specifications, break down each feature in tasks with approximate  estimates until deployment.
• Create and improve user tests that will assess your developments and cover all edge-cases.
• Foster strong collaboration with other teams to ensure customer satisfaction, seamless integration, and consistency with other systems and data sources.
• Develop dynamic, user-friendly web applications using the Angular framework that offer exceptional user experiences.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and engaging user experiences, making sure that the applications are easy to navigate and visually appealing.
• Deliver the best business value to the end customer while complying with the company’s best practices and conventions (SDLC). 
• Work with the Platform & IT Security team to uphold security standards, especially for applications handling sensitive data.
• Provide 2nd level support for investigation and debugging.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Fully understand how to use the tools in your sphere of competence and stay up to date with the constant evolution of those technologies.
• Provide, maintain and contribute to detailed code comments, user-focused documentation, comprehensive ReadMe’s, version history, …
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Requirements

Who you are

• You have, at least,  2 or 3 years of experience with Angular. (Medior level wanted).  
• You hold a degree in the computer sciences field or similar (mathematics, engineering).
• You are fluent in English. 
• Technical knowledges: Angular 14+, Karma/Jasmine, Cypress, RxJs, Micro-frontend, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST APIs, UX, Webpack, Apache, Yarn, Git, Gitlab, Docker, … (Additional knowledge of alternatives welcome)
• Basic knowledges of AWS services: ECS, ECR, EC2, ELB, S3
• The knowledge of HTMX is an asset. 
• You are autonomous and a problem-solver.

Benefits

Why you should join us

We believe that our employees' well-being, motivation and enthusiasm are at the core of our growth. Our employees’ positive feedback and positivism are key signs of their high level of satisfaction. Our wish is that every Sparkers employee feels like an important member of this mid-sized family.

• A good work life balance matters: We intend to fulfill employees’ needs by offering trust and a high flexibility with up to 3 days of remote work per week. In exchange, we expect our teams to remain focused, creative and embrace our collaborative mindset. 
• Pleasant working environment: Our office is located in Buzzynest, a modern and dynamic coworking space that provides all the technology you need to carry out your tasks, and much more: Zen room, Games room, Gym, Food truck, Green outdoor area, Afterworks, … 
• Work and pleasure are not separate here: Our team is always ready on their lunch breaks with activities like board games, table tennis, video games, and more. We believe in creating a lively workplace where productivity and enjoyment thrive together.
• A flat organization management model: We foster quality training and autonomy instead of managerial micro-supervision. Accordingly, we opted for a structure composed of independent, self-managing teams nurtured by a collaborative spirit and striving for a company-wide shared success.
• Positive and open-minded atmosphere: Being driven by strong values while progressing towards common goals, Sparkers consists of a good mix of diverse profiles, nationalities and personalities resulting in an enthusiastic atmosphere. It is of the highest importance for us to maintain and nurture all of this. 
• Our values: Accountability & Trust, Integrity & Respect, Team Spirit & Collaboration, Pro-activity & Sense of initiative.

Ready to make a difference with us? Join our team ! ?