You may have never heard of Smartx, but you’ve sure heard about our clients, whom we helped become among the best in their domain. Our fame doesn’t concern us, but we strongly believe that our customers’ reputation is crucial. Thus we provide development services for some of the largest, most successful websites in the world. One of our main projects consists of maintaining and developing a website visited by 5-6.000.000 unique users every day. And yes, we’ve double counted the zeros and there’s no mistake about it.
Our challenges consist in maintaining high uptime availability, delivering key features to help product growth, in a fast-paced environment, while at the same time keeping an engineering culture based on code-reviews, unit-tests and high hiring standards. We can be the hard workers every established business needs or the brilliant minds that start a new one.
Our key objective is to make Smartx Net Apps the best workplace in Bucharest.
We value our staff by investing in their health and good employment practices. We offer a creative workplace and a flat organization, focused on teamwork, product quality, dynamic and a fun atmosphere. We have a very nice and comfortable office downtown, with a break area where we provide fruit and snacks every day. We have flexible working hours, to help maintain a healthy balance between your professional and personal life.
We also offer great opportunities to:
- Work with some of the newest networking technologies and protocols;
- Work independently with minimal supervision;
- Increase your depth of technical knowledge.
We value our staff by investing in their health and good employment practices. We offer a creative workplace and a flat organization, focused on teamwork, product quality, dynamic and fun atmosphere. We have a very nice and comfortable downtown office, with a break area, outside space, fruits and different daily snacks. Flexible working hours are to support work-life balance.
If this sounds appealing, join our team by submitting your CV in English to hr@smart-x.net
There’s absolutely no reason why you wouldn’t want to join us. So do it. We’ll make working hours the time of your life.
At Smartx, we are handling multiple products on a technical level, including the rewriting of a huge live streaming platform towards a SaaS architecture. You’ll be part of the entire lifecycle of the project, starting from designing the architecture up to deploying the code in production.
The Challenge:
What you should know: this is not your usual platform. It has to face heavy traffic (55 million unique users/month, 380 million page views, 25k concurrent users every second), live video streaming (webRTC, HLS), fast loading website. We have around 120+ microservices built so far.
This might be the place for you if you have:
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Strong business, operations and technical vision.
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Have been successful working across organizational boundaries, bringing together people with diverse perspectives and experience to find solutions
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5+ years of experience with strategic planning, defining company vision, mission and goals
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Good knowledge with process improvement
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Excellent knowledge of Agile methodologies and Software development life cycle (SDLC)
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Proven track record of raising the bar on performance by insisting on the highest standards and delivering results by leading teams in an operations environment.
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Strong people leadership and engagement skills and demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate teams
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Excellent communicator, in fluent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate at all levels of seniority within the organisation. Able to write strong business proposals.
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
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Be a good leader!
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Proven experience with people management, includes: 1 to 1 meetings, career path, yearly performance assessment
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Lead and participate in strategic projects, including new product and feature launches, process improvements, and geographic expansion
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Facilitate regular review of project operations workflow; investigate, identify, propose, and implement new processes to improve project efficiency
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Set clear metrics for success, analyse data and use it to identify key problems in daily operations and figure out solutions for those problems
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Optimise how teams are organised, enforce the right processes and continuously identify improvement opportunities at every level
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Ensure the development, alignment and implementation of end-to-end processes, leading to operational, process, quality, standard and delivery optimisation
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Propose simple, scalable solutions to difficult problems, have excellent project-management skills, and be able to communicate complex analytical results in a concise and easy-to-understand manner.
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Build (and manage) long lasting relationships with stakeholders and vendors
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Report on weekly & quarterly KPIs and projects to senior leadership
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Collaborate closely HR & Recruitment in regards to recruitment, training, retention and set headcount growth.
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Possesses good negotiation skills & may take part of the sales process, thus enabling the growth of the organization.
We have
- Benefits and professional development according to each individual’s needs:
- Private medical plan at Medicover Clinic;
- Trainings & career development programs – in the country and abroad, online during this pandemic period;
- Meal vouchers
- Bookster
- Performance reviews and compensation based on your results, performance based bonus structure.
- Team buildings and company events – we find reasons to celebrate! It could be about our wins, birthdays, or simply for having good time together.
- Cozy workplace located within walking distance of many delicious restaurants and cafés; during Pandemic we’re working from home, but our office is open for the employees who want to go out and meet their colleagues once in a while; we respect all the safety measures.
At Smartx, we are handling multiple products on a technical level, including the rewriting of a huge live streaming platform towards a SaaS architecture. You’ll be part of the entire lifecycle of the project, starting from designing the architecture up to deploying the code in production.
The Challenge:
What you should know: this is not your usual platform. It has to face heavy traffic (55 million unique users/month, 380 million page views, 25k concurrent users every second), live video streaming (webRTC, HLS), fast loading website. We have around 120+ microservices built so far.
This might be the place for you if you have:
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Minimum of 3 years experience in a Management role
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Experience with application quality assurance in a complex web-based and mobile development environment.
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A good understanding of OOP concepts and a programming language (we use Java)
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Familiarity with automation frameworks (selenium, cypress or other)
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Good understanding of Production & Delivery pipelines – CI/CD
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Great expertise in testing methodologies, various processes, technologies, best practices and tools.
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Prior experience in setting goals and KPIs based on metrics and reports of the QA department performance
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Ability to analyze data and review processes and provide actionable insights
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You will have international exposure, so you should be comfortable in English (spoken and written).
Your main responsibilities:
- Be a people manager! This includes: 1 to 1 meetings, career path, yearly performance assessment
- Coach and mentor Manual & Automation Engineers, uplift their skills and guide them through their own career growth
- Hire and train QA Manual & Automation Engineers
- Be an individual contributor when needed and lead by example
- Plan, implement and continuously improve automation testing methodologies
- Team up with Engineering & Product teams to ensure alignment of objectives, test coverage and timelines.
- Work closely with programming teams to ensure the smooth launch of new code updates or additions
We have
- Benefits and professional development according to each individual’s needs:
- Private medical plan at Medicover Clinic;
- Trainings & career development programs – in the country and abroad, online during this pandemic period;
- Meal vouchers
- Bookster
- Performance reviews and compensation based on your results, performance based bonus structure.
- Team buildings and company events – we find reasons to celebrate! It could be about our wins, birthdays, or simply for having good time together.
- Cozy workplace located within walking distance of many delicious restaurants and cafés; during Pandemic we’re working from home, but our office is open for the employees who want to go out and meet their colleagues once in a while; we respect all the safety measures.
At Smartx, we are handling multiple products on a technical level, including the rewriting of a huge live streaming platform towards a SaaS architecture. You’ll be part of the entire lifecycle of the project, starting from designing the architecture up to deploying the code in production.
The Challenge:
What you should know: this is not your usual platform. It has to face heavy traffic (55 million unique users/month, 380 million page views, 25k concurrent users every second), live video streaming (webRTC, HLS), fast loading website. We have around 120+ microservices built so far.
This might be the place for you if:
You have
- Previous experience as a hands-on Software Engineer
- Experience as a People Manager
- Mentoring abilities – a really nice to have
- Great communication skills (written and verbal)
- Understanding of web technologies, as well as of coding concepts
- Knowledgeable on Architecture and Design Patterns
Your main responsabilities
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Be a People Manager! This includes: 1 to 1 meetings, career path, yearly performance assessment
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Responsible for updating and managing Development Methodology
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Identify global issues hindering productivity and craft a plan to remove them
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Manage and monitor technical metrics
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Point of contact with different business partners
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Collect feedback from staff
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Hold interviews, extend offers
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Manage the Incident Intervention Team
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Monitor and manage the incidents
We have
- Benefits and professional development according to each individual’s needs:
- Private medical plan at Medicover Clinic;
- Trainings & career development programs – in the country and abroad, online during this pandemic period;
- Meal vouchers
- Bookster
- Performance reviews and compensation based on your results, performance based bonus structure.
- Team buildings and company events – we find reasons to celebrate! It could be about our wins, birthdays, or simply for having good time together.
- Cozy workplace located within walking distance of many delicious restaurants and cafés; during Pandemic we’re working from home, but our office is open for the employees who want to go out and meet their colleagues once in a while; we respect all the safety measures.
At Smartx, we are handling multiple products on a technical level, including the rewriting of a huge live streaming platform towards a SaaS architecture. You’ll be part of the entire lifecycle of the project, starting from designing the architecture up to deploying the code in production.
The Challenge:
What you should know: this is not your usual platform. It has to face heavy traffic (55 million unique users/month, 380 million page views, 25k concurrent users every second), live video streaming (webRTC, HLS), fast loading website. We have around 120+ microservices built so far.
This might be the place for you if:
You have
- 6+ years experience in software development and object-oriented programming with focus on Java programming and Spring Framework;
- 3+ years of experience developing multithreaded applications;
- Experience with application servers.
- Good understanding of REST;
- Experience with ORM (we use Hibernate)
- Worked with RabbitMQ/Kafka (with a focus on Kafka)
- Good knowledge of CI/CD
You might also have
- SaaS exposure;
- Experience with high traffic / high load environments;
- Familiarity with microservices
- Worked before with the ELK stack
- Familiarity with technologies like Firebase, Mongo, Wowza;
- Mentoring and technical leading skills;
- A creative approach to problem-solving comes hand in hand with systematic and quick thinking.
Your main responsibilities:
- Work in an agile team to build a scalable, reliable and secure software;
- Design, develop, deploy, integrate various features into existing or new products;
- Develop web applications with performance and stability in mind;
- Contribute to load balancing configurations, distributed servers and replicated databases;
- Actively participate in peer code reviews and contribute to improving the codebase;
- Propose and advocate for best practices and design changes;
- Ensure that technical software development process is followed on the project, familiar with industry best practices for software development;
We have
- Benefits and professional development according to each individual’s needs;
- Cozy workplace located within walking distance of many delicious restaurants and cafés; in the days this doesn’t work for you, our office kitchen is always fully stocked with both sweet and savory snacks and drinks!
At SmartX, we are deploying and managing tens of nodes for delivering content everywhere in the world. The packman cloud at our profile speaks about how we’re working.
Currently, we are rewriting the backend of a huge application towards SaaS architecture. You’ll be part of the entire lifecycle of the project, starting from designing up to deploying the code on production.
What you should know: this is not an usual app. It has to face heavy traffic, live streaming, fast loading website.
The most important: this is a place for people. Not a corporate, but an informal, chill, fun group, with a constant purpose: to use the best engineering methods and top-notch technologies to build amazing like what we’re doing, we like to be empowered, and we don’t like close supervision.
This might be the place for you if:
You have
- 3+ years experience in software development and object-oriented programming with focus on Java programming and Spring Framework;
- experience developing multithreaded applications, distributed components, data layers;
- Experience with application servers.
You might also have:
- SaaS exposure;
- Experience with high traffic / high load environments;
- Excellent problem solving skills.
Your main responsabilities:
- Work within a team on incrementally released projects;
- Launch features early and adapt in regards to user feedback;
- Develop Internet applications taking in consideration performance and stability criteria;
We have
- Benefits and professional development according to each individual’s needs;
- Cozy workplace located within walking distance of many delicious restaurants and cafés; in the days this doesn’t work for you, our office kitchen is always fully stocked with both sweet and savory snacks and drinks!
At SmartX, we are deploying and managing tens of nodes for delivering content everywhere in the world. The packman cloud at our profile speaks about how we’re working.
Currently, we are rewriting the backend of a huge application towards SaaS architecture. You’ll be part of the entire lifecycle of the project, starting from designing up to deploying the code on production.
What you should know: this is not an usual app. It has to face heavy traffic, live streaming,
fast loading website.
The most important: this is a place for people. Not a corporate, but an informal, chill, fun group, with a constant purpose: to use the best engineering methods and top-notch technologies to build amazing like what we’re doing, we like to be empowered, and we don’t like close supervision.
This might be the place for you.
You have:
- Deep knowledge of Java (JDK 8);
- Understanding of the tools used in development, like mvn, GIT or Dependency
- Injection (not specifically these ones);
- Understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and web technologies.
You might also have:
- Experience in programming or equivalent combination of education and experience in software development;
- Friendly and reliable personality.
We have
- Benefits and professional development according to each individual’s needs;
- Cozy workplace located within walking distance of many delicious restaurants and
cafés; in the days this doesn’t work for you, our office kitchen is always fully stocked with both sweet and savory snacks and drinks!
We’re not an ordinary tech company, and that shows in our extraordinary people we work with.
We have a great opportunity for creative and focused automation engineers, interested in working on a high traffic platform using cutting edge Internet technologies. Smart-x and its international partners is an innovative leader in areas such as:
- Live Streaming
- Graph Databases
- Mobile Application Development
- Instant Messaging Platforms
- Payments system
- High traffic and low latency applications
With products used by millions of people daily that must be available 24/7 this represents a huge challenge and learning opportunity for the right person. Join us and play a big role in developing code that gets used!
- Essential knowledge:
- Educational background in Computer Science area;
- Basic programing knowledge – Java preferable;
- Previous experience in test automation and/or knowledge of testing methodologies;
- Experience with Selenium (would be a plus);
- Previous experience with Agile methodologies (nice to have).
You will have international exposure, so you should be comfortable in English (spoken and written).
- Your main responsibilities:
- Write and execute test cases;
- Perform functional, confirmation and regression testing;
- Develop, execute and maintain automated test scripts;
- Document and report bugs following company guidelines;
- Understand and analyze Functional, Technical, and UI requirements of the project/release;
- Log defects and verify defect fixes;
Work closely with programming teams to ensure the smooth launch of new code updates or additions.
- We compensate your achievements and commitment with:
- Competitive salary;
- Private medical plan at Medicover Clinic;
- Trainings & career development programs;
- Meal vouchers (maximum value) and well-stocked micro-kitchen in the office (not available at the moment);
- Relaxing massage at the office (not available at the moment);
- Free access to different sports fields – football, tennis – and friendly teammates to play with (not available at the moment);
- Performance reviews and compensation based on your results, performance based bonus structure;
- Team buildings and company events – we find reasons to celebrate! It could be about our wins, birthdays, or simply for having good time together (not available at the moment).
In our Bucharest office we offer a creative workplace focused on teamwork, product quality, and fun atmosphere. We have a very nice and comfortable downtown office, with a break area, outside space, fruits and different daily snacks. Flexible working hours are provided to support your work-life balance.
Of course, due to COVID-19 pandemic our colleagues are working from home for an undetermined period of time.