A career in tech inspired by people

The process may vary from job to job, but it generally looks like this: 

• A first meeting to get to know each other and go beyond your CV. We'll talk about your aspirations, your background and your values to ensure a mutual fit!

• A second meeting involving the manager. We'll discuss the role more specifically, and you'll have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

• Finally, a technical discussion with two members of the team. The topics covered during this discussion will be indicated to you in advance, so that you can be well prepared!

We want to assess your curiosity and desire to learn. We're also looking for people with a positive attitude who want to collaborate with their colleagues on a daily basis. We'll be assessing your technical skills: versatility and attention to quality are a must! We'll talk to you about quality principles, testing, web and mobile development. Don't hesitate to share your interest in specific business areas or products!

We'd like to recommend these books to you: Clean Code and Clean Architecture. As well as these kata exercise sites: Kata-Log, Kata-Catalog on GitHub and Emily Bache on GitHub. For the nomenclature of code smells and design patterns: the site Refactoring Guru and the podcast Soft Skills Engineering. You may find the following sites useful: TDD Buddy, Code Cop and Programming with Wolfgang. Finally, a useful link to our blog, especially the technical articles.

Everyone's reality is different, and Nexapp wants you to be able to adapt your schedule to your needs, as long as there's good communication with your colleagues and customers to keep projects moving forward!

We're constantly striving to improve it, but here are the key ingredients:

• Great trust placed in all team members.
• Weekly rituals with everyone to keep them informed and highlight successes.
• Quarterly meetings that give visibility to the whole company.
• Frequent team celebrations, such as our Fall Kick-Off, Summer Party and Holiday Party.
• Remote colleagues who are encouraged to come into the office once a month.
• Work sessions at the Nexapp chalet to advance projects and consolidate bonds.
• Office equipment, to include both on-site and remote people.

We adapt to the unique reality of each of our clients to deliver more value. In fact, this is how we've developed our best-practice software engineering approach in a variety of fields, from healthcare to finance to tourism, and beyond. There are, however, different elements that apply to almost all projects:

• We generally work with our clients in one of two ways, either co-developing with their in-house teams or carrying out the project from start to finish.
  
  
• Whatever the type of collaboration, we aim to accompany our customers through their entire software development cycle, from product strategy to development, including UX/UI design.

The answer varies greatly depending on each client's reality. Whatever the project, you can count on a network of software developers, a product owner and UX/UI designers. Although we operate in the service sector, our teams are not distributed at customer sites. We work together in Nexapp's physical and virtual environments.

We work with several current technologies, depending on the client's context. What is non-negotiable for us is to work according to good software engineering practices, such as :

• automated testing and the test pyramid
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• S.O.L.I.D. principles
• tell, don't ask (TDA) approach
• clean architecture
• cloud design patterns
• accessibility-first design
• functional programming

The management team and managers are an integral part of Nexapp's day-to-day operations. You'll see them at our quarterly get-togethers, happy hours, meetings and randomly in our open-plan offices. These are all opportunities to take advantage of our linear hierarchy to share your ideas or opinions. What's more, our quarterly meetings bring a great deal of transparency to the whole team. 

Huh?! On your first day at work, you'll be introduced to your colleagues in hybrid mode in the form of a quiz to get to know you better. You'll have to answer THE question that divides a whole population: at St-Hubert, do you go for the creamy or traditional coleslaw? Expect to make friends and enemies in seconds, depending on your answer!