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A CHALLENGING TASK

• You will lead and inspire an engineering team of frontend and backend developer as well as QA-engineers.
• You will drive your team members development and enable them to evolve their skills by living the company leadership principles.
• You will act as a guide for the team to ensure that technical interests are preserved.
• You will be responsible for high code quality, delivering high quality product features as well as the team’s effectiveness and output quality.
• You will facilitate communication and coordination with external teams and coordinate technical projects.
• You will be responsible that the team is able to reach their sprint goals.
• You will concept, design and find technical solutions to product requirements while ensuring the quality and sustainability of the technical solutions implemented by your team.
• You will implement code and have a hands-on approach on driving the architecture of our products. Active coding and development should make part of your allocated time, although you have the freedom to decide how much and how.

A CONVINCING BACKGROUND

• You are a technical leader with at least 1 year of experience in managing people within an agile software engineering environment.
• You have a professional working background in agile software engineering, so you’re aware of the technical challenges your staff faces in their daily work and provide high-level advice and stability.
• You have both a strong theoretical and practical foundation in at least one modern object-oriented programming language and you are interested in current engineering technologies. Ideally, you  have a track record as an experienced Backend, Frontend or QA engineer.
• You are an open minded, positive, pragmatic and solution-oriented person with a focus on goals and outcomes.
• You constantly strive to learn and improve yourself as well as the company and its products.
• You like to go the extra mile and think outside the box in order to deliver a good solution.
• You can communicate openly and clearly in English - German is a plus.

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
• Social days
• Real training and conferences
• Health Insurance
• 25 days of vacation per year
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world.
• XING Care Program – an EAP to support you
• Free breakfast, fruit, drinks, snacks and much more
• Partnership discounts
• English, German and Portuguese lessons
• A mobile device for your private use (iPhone, iPad, Android…)
• Competitive salary.

We offer a dynamic environment. Besides flexible working hours and some days to “work from home”, you will have an opportunity to extend your skills and acquire new ones. We offer a wide range of training courses from technical ramp-up to foreign language lessons, regular team and offsite events, access to conferences, and lots of fun. You will work in a multicultural and international environment (XING employees come from more than 30 different countries), with people speaking English, German, Spanish, Arabic, etc., but also Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Go, Java, Scala, Python, Kotlin and so on. If you like technology, you will feel at home with us!

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 send an email with your contact information and a CV or link to an online-CV to https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/fjfugp2b