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A CHALLENGING TASK

• You will play a senior role in a small and cross-functional team
• Design, test, build, ship and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable object-oriented PHP7 code
• You provide and enhance tools to automate processes and ultimately improve our development environment
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

A CONVINCING BACKGROUND

• Strong object-oriented PHP skills, experience with MVC frameworks (i.e. Symfony, Silex, Zend, Laravel)
• Several years of experience in designing, building, testing and shipping web applications
• Automated testing, clean code and code coverage is just as important to you as production code
• Exceptional experience with various design and architectural patterns, algorithms, and data structures
• You're into agile methodologies and enjoy working in teams with a focus on sharing knowledge
• DevOps mentality and result-oriented experience with MySQL and Linux administration is of advantage
• Experience with front-end tech (HTML, CSS, JS) is a plus
• Great English communication skills.

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/vvu2wgln