Description

XING provides advice and support to its more than 16 million members during the upheaval processes in the world of work. In an environment marked by a shortage of skilled workers, digitalization, and changes in values, XING helps its members achieve as harmonious a work/life balance as possible: For a better working life.

Olá Porto! We opened a new tech office in beautiful Porto two years ago and we are looking for great people to join our team!

We have job openings in many roles to complement our growing team. For all open positions, we look for skilled & dedicated people who share our passion for building products that millions of users love. 

At XING, a New Work SE subsidiary, you will find a technology-driven environment in which your contributions matter and you are enabled to grow professionally. You’ll be part of an organization with almost 300 amazing developers and a healthy culture of learning from each other via pairing, communities of practice, joint hackweek projects etc. While most of our products focus on the German speaking regions, our development teams are collaborating from 6 offices across Europe and our working culture is international. 

What we are looking for

• Academic or personal mobile and device programming experience;
• Heard about HTTP, REST and JSON, maybe even complemented by some backend knowledge;
• Likes to code in Java, and maybe even in Kotlin (Huge plus if you are familiar with RxJava);
• Used the Android SDK before;
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structures;
• Knowledge about general software development patterns;
• You are eager to learn, evolve with the technology trends, and willing to embrace change;
• You want to work in a company that uses agile methodologies and enjoy working in teams with a focus on sharing knowledge.

A convincing background

• You study business, computer science or mathematics and/or collected relevant work experiences;
• You are fast learner with good organizational and communication skills;
• You are practical and solution oriented: you enjoy in getting things done;
• You can communicate well in (both written and spoken) English.

An inspiring environment

• The chance to work on a large, highly distributed platform with over 16 million users.
• Varied tasks, uncomplicated interactions with your colleagues as well as many opportunities to bring in your own ideas await you.
• Innovation/hack weeks every few months where you can unleash your creativity and ideas.
• Real training and conferences.
• Health Insurance
• 25 days of vacation per year
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world.
• Free breakfast, fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English, German and Portuguese lessons.

We contribute into open source https://github.com/xing and let the world know what we are doing (https://devblog.xing.com) and organize public user groups and coding events. Check out our XING engineering blog at https://tech.xing.com/.

Your turn: If you think this position is right for you and that you can help us make XING big in Porto, we’d be delighted to talk to you. Simply apply at https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/5gozk20f

Not the right job for you? Don’t worry! You’re more than welcome to send us an unsolicited application!