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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62.02 - Computer consultancy activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 October 2019
Employment effect (start)
14 October 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Smile, a company specialised in the integration of open source solutions, has announced to recruit 200 people on permanent contracts by the end of the year. The positions to be filled are located in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Smile has already recruited no less than 250 employees since the beginning of the year. According to a company spokesperson, these are new jobs. Smile has 1,700 employees and a turnover of more than €102.5 million. Smile is seeking for e-commerce consultants, scrum masters, digital project managers as well as PHP and Java backend developers. Other offers are also available for embedded Linux engineers, UX designers, DevOps profiles, digital project managers, business engineers and data consultants.
Eurofound (2019), Smile, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 98890, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98890.
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