Description

Senior Frontend Engineer (f/m/x) – People Team 

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. 

What we are looking for

• 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 or solid experience 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.

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 click here and apply: https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/djwe5xlj