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

• Apply data engineering to deliver efficient tools for data collection and processing
• You collaborate actively with other teams in XING’s data environments
• You embrace learning new technologies
• Create and present ad-hoc analyses in a clear manner
• Participate in developing machine learning solutions, e.g. recommendation systems
• Extending and broadening your skills with help and mentoring of experienced teammates

Convincing background

• You study or have a degree in computer science or related fields and/or have acquired equivalent software engineering experience
• You have a good understanding of programming paradigms, OOP, data structures, git, etc. and can write standalone programs
• You have done course works and/or projects that demonstrate your proficiency in programming and/or data analysis
• You understand how relational databases work and can write SQL queries
• You have a positive mindset, team spirit and the social skills to work in a highly international and distributed setup
• You are eager to learn new languages and frameworks, improve your skillset and share your knowledge
• Some experience in the field of machine learning and /or big data is a plus
• Working knowledge of Python and Scala is a plus

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.
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world.
• Free fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English and German 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.

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/ky5zs2g0

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