About Fireworkx

Address

1st Floor, 4 Oakdale Road, Newlands, Cape Town

Company Size

15-50
Summary

In Brief

  • Established in 1999
  • Privately owned & managed
  • Dedicated web, mobile & digital experience specialists
  • 100’s of years of combined tech & creative experience
  • Clients in SA, Africa and internationally
  • Over 200 completed projects in 17 years

What we do

Creating meaningful solutions begins with gaining a deep understanding of people’s needs. This is where we start.

We are not afraid of asking awkward or hard questions, just to "please the client". The old adage, measure twice cut once, has never been truer than when starting a software project.

Why Work For Us

We’re an unusual hybrid of technologists, creatives, marketers and business-minded people. We employ experienced craftsmen & women who will work together combining their skills to create a solution that's exactly right.

Our Culture

We fiercely protect our chilled work environment, to ensure it stays free of ego, free of stress and free of red tape.

Our Engineering Processes

User Experience (UX) Driven Design

  • Start with the user in mind
  • Focus on the end experience
  • Our process: discovery > analysis > storyboarding > wireframes > prototyping > design > build & develop > integrate > test > launch

Our Philosophy is Simplicity – Focus on simplicity – but not simplistic

Our Hiring Process

The success of a company relies on the expertise of its employees. Because this is a dynamic industry, we are always on the lookout for new talent with their own unique "box of tricks" that can surprise us.

If you feel that your skills will benefit us, connect with us. You may soon find yourself a member of a world class team. There may be 1 or 2 rounds of "interviews" which really are easy-going conversations. After that, we sometimes have in-depth technical assessments.

Perks
Great coffee
Chilled work environment
Flexible hours
Generous leave policy
Great location
Shower facilities
Regular brewery tours
Brand new offices
Close to Cavendish Square
Hybrid / Remote
Tech Stack

Application and Data

AngularJS
Javascript
React
jQuery
HTML5
C#
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
Backbone.js
ASP.NET
MS SQL
.Net Core 2.0
Vue.js
Angular
.NET Core

DevOps

GitHub
Pingdom
Subversion
Team Foundation Server

Utilities

Google Analytics
Power BI
BrowserStack

Business Tools

Google Apps
MailChimp
Miro
Teamwork is important
Some of the team doing the Sundowners 10km race at the Waterfront
Lunch at the Spice Route on the CBC Brewery tour
Senior devs hatching a new solution
A team member showing off his first marathon medal
Doing the CBC Brewery tour
Häzz coffee beans freshly ground and brewed
Devs troubleshooting one late afternoon - spot the beer bottle :-)
Our brand new offices in Newlands
Our location at 4 Oakdale Road
Just look at those views!