Description

New Work SE – for a better working life

We believe in a world of work where people can find their true self and achieve their full potential. NEW WORK SE offers a wide range of brands, products and services for a better working life. This not only makes individuals more satisfied and happier, it also makes companies more successful.

XING, a New Work SE subsidiary, is the leading online business network in German-speaking countries and supports its 16.5 million members in working in line with their way of life and individual preferences. Professionals from every industry connect with one another, look and apply for jobs, and seek inspiration about the latest trends in the world of work. Thanks to the broad news portfolio, XING members can keep their finger on the pulse and discuss the latest developments.

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 the 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 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.
• Annual conference allowances, regular training, meetups and brown bag lunches throughout the year, as well as the opportunity to speak at conferences - we'll support you where we can
• Health Insurance
• An Employee Assistance Program to help you with all kinds of personal topics, to ensure you have the support for a better working life
• 25 days of vacation per year + 2 days off (Christmas eve and New Year’s eve)
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world, who have various technology backgrounds
• Free breakfast, fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English, German and Portuguese lessons.
• A mobile device for your private use (iPhone, iPad, Android, you choose!).
• Competitive salary.

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/8aima4uv.

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