🧱 How we build it

• We are global: We thrive to be global and grow in diversity. As of today, we are present in 3 countries, speak more than 10 languages and have 8 nationalities in the team

• We are a tribe: Our flat structure calls for a shared and distributed leadership. Being a leader may feel unnatural at first, but we believe and have been proven true that anyone can step up and own parts of a project. We are a team, we act like teammates and we call out anyone who does the opposite.

• We are doers: We’re given an incredible amount of freedom and autonomy at Sparkmate. That goes for everyone, from interns on up. We trust you to figure out how to approach a problem.

✨ About the team

Sparkmate is designed for ambitious people who want to power the most innovative projects in the world! We are looking for passionate people with a team-player mindset, strong expertise and, above all, the ability to learn by doing in a fast-paced environment.
Our team is focused on providing the best product development experience to our clients, from understanding their needs and challenging their ideas, to building the best prototype and product we could imagine! We are incredibly diversified with lots of different expertises, from mechanics experts to cloud development wizards.

As part of the web and mobile tribe (the software track as we call it! ), you’ll be bringing to life digital products, web platforms, mobile apps and more, often interacting with physical products. You’ll have the responsibility to ensure the development velocity and keeping a smooth communication with our clients, while working on improving the quality of our deliverables and standards, from UX design to technical architecture.

Some of the products we have brought to life:

• Sharelock: A connected and shared lock for secure bike parking in cities. From 0 to industrialization

• Bumpair: Mechanical benches for performance testing of a very innovative inflatable helmet to protect bikers.

• Showviz: A virtual reality collaborative platform that allows creative teams, production and customers to work together.

• wideop: A photo based marketplace for professionals photographers

• The Digital Patisserie: Machines for pastry and food 3D printing

💻 Responsibilities

Position responsibilities as a product engineer

• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables in milestones of 5 weeks

• Design, develop, test, deploy exciting software products

• Transform a business / product vision into a technical architecture and actionnable roadmap

• Design, shape, and implement authentication, authorization, auditing, reporting, and API infrastructure solution and improve the existing solutions

• Be able to adapt and self-train on a wide range of technologies depending on customers’ needs (Machine Learning, Web3, Mobile Applications…)

and as a Senior backend Engineer

• Drive improvements on product quality as well as velocity and ease of development and impact the whole Sparkmate way of developing software

• Provide mentorship through code reviews and pair engineering for our more junior engineers. Help them grow into new technical experts and leaders

• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of the company

Above all, we’re looking for high potential, ownership and curiosity: we value much more about your product development approach and general engineering skills than some specific tech knowledge.

💵 Remuneration and perks

Remuneration

We have a clear and transparent remuneration scheme at Sparkmate, that takes the form of:

• a monthly salary,

• a yearly annual sharing

• some incentive in the company.

• We base our remuneration system on Ownership and Experience level.

Our entry salary range goes from 31K to 70K HKD per month according to the experience level.

Perks

• 4 days-week : Every Friday is off, so you can dedicate it to what you like, self learning, side projects and so on. Once every 5 weeks, we gather to focus on internal and fun projects during 🚀 Rocking Friday

• Flexible working-hours

• Remote working whenever you wants while on-site presence is not strictly required by the project !

• Health Insurance

Work is not about how many hours we spend in the office, it’s about results and what we ship at the end of the week. We believe in high productivity, focusing on what matters.

🎯 Minimum qualifications

• Experience in developing backend architecture, apis, micro services
• Experience in NoSQL (MongoDB) and SQL databases (PostgresSQL, SQLite)
• Experience with DevOps (building Docker Images, using Github actions or GitLab pipelines, deploying on AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience in building cloud (SaaS) applications.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.

🏅Preferred qualifications

• Experience with one or more popular Node.js backend frameworks : Nest.js, Koa, Strapi, Express.js etc.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Python, Java, Golang, C++
• Excellent object-oriented, database design, SQL, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Web3 or Machine Learning could be interesting according to customers’ needs
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed We value much more about your product development approach and general engineering skills than some specific tech knowledge.

It’s okay if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we’re ready to give you the keys to succeed at Sparkmate if we feel you’re a great fit!

Ready to join us ?
One last word about our hiring process. It typically follows a 6 steps process:

• Application through WelcomeKit: Portfolio mandatory and a word about your motivation to join us (tell us why you think you could be a great fit!)

• Personality tests

• Call with one teammate

• Call with the founders

• Product and tech interview

• Optional: One day in one of our hubs

• Offer

⚠️ ALL APPLICATIONS WITH A CV INSTEAD OF A PORTFOLIO WILL BE AUTOMATICALY REJECTED 🙃
(and by the way check your emails -promotion and spam folders- you will received the instructions to take the tests right after applying 😉)