Description

XING is the social network for business professionals with millions of members all over the world. Help us shape the future of work – for a better working life!

As an expanding social network, with a focus on bringing value to our customers, the frontend is the visual interface between XING and its users. All of our frontend applications are using a tech stack that is based on React and an internally built open source framework called Hops, that enables in-browser and server side rendering including routing, state management and communication with our backends. For this we are leveraging either Redux or Apollo GraphQL.

XING is now looking to welcome talented frontend engineers at all levels (from junior to senior) to join our 300 highly skilled, deeply motivated and dedicated engineers and product developers throughout our various locations in Europe (Hamburg, Barcelona, Valencia, Porto, etc.), sharing a healthy culture of learning from each other via pairing, communities of practice, joint hackweek projects etc.

A Challenging Task

• You’ll be creating and improving reusable components in our React based frontend stack
• You will be responsible for structure, maintainability and quality of your applications
• You have web performance in mind and drive this topic through tooling and consultancy
• You work closely together with your team of fellow developers, product owners, designers and QA engineers
• You collaborate with other teams in XING's frontend ecosystem
• You have the great opportunity to work in an international, cross-functional environment (communicating in English, German is not required).

A Convincing Background

• Strong frontend skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Knowledge (at junior level) or solid experience (at senior level) with the React library
• Knowledge in node.js, npm and the ecosystem around javascript dependency management are a bonus
• An eye for proportion and usability
• Experience in unit testing frontend applications
• You are a team player, used to work in agile environments
• You know your qualities, share them with your team and are happy to further develop yourself
• You can comprehensively communicate on a technical level and speak english fluently in written and spoken language

An Inspiring Environment

• The chance to work on a large, highly distributed platform with over 14 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.
• 25 days of vacation per year
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world.
• Free fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English and German lessons.
• A mobile device for your private use (iPhone, iPad, Android…).
• Competitive salary.

XING offers 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 https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/8aima4uv