Description

XING provides advice and support to its more than 18 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.

A challenging task

• Doing engineering at our scale is a significant and rewarding technical challenge. Our production system consists of 180 services of different sizes, posing plenty of challenges.
• Be part of our software development team in an agile environment
• Discuss and implement innovative solutions closely with your team our business analysts as well as internal and external partners
• Develop in a high risk area with sensitive data which goes beyond the scope of a standard Ruby on Rails app
• Live the complete development cycle including writing automated tests, participating in code reviews and performing deployments
• Work on scalable, high-availability services

A convincing background

• We have offices in various parts of Europe (Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Barcelona, Porto and, more recently, Valencia). XING employees come from more than 30 different countries and bring their collective experiences and culture to work every day. Some of us studied computer science, while others come from other fields or don't even have a degree-level qualification. The key common ingredient is a willingness to learn and grow.
• You care about the craft of software development and strive to build testable, predictable and simple code,
• You are able to write clean code in a Ruby on Rails environment
• You want to tackle the engineering challenges that come with building systems at scale (highly available, low latency and high throughput),
• You are curious and interested in learning new languages and frameworks,
• You have a good sense of humour and keep calm in difficult situations,

An inspiring environment:

• The chance to work on a large, highly distributed platform with over 18 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
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world.
• Free fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.

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/xshe8e3g

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