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!
For years XING has been one of the leading companies in building user-oriented digital products thanks to an organisation that embraces agile methods in and beyond the cross-functional product development teams. With our strong group of over 45 product people - with a variety of specialisations and a keen interest in collaborating and learning from one another - we actively work to grow our product culture. Thanks to our internal learning mindset, a variety of training courses, exchange with external partners as well as national and international experts, we pursue our vision: For a better working life.

A challenging task

• Doing engineering at our scale is a significant and rewarding technical challenge. Our production system consists of 180 services of different sizes, posing plenty of challenges.

• Be part of our software development team in an agile environment
• Discuss and implement innovative solutions closely with your team our business analysts as well as internal and external partners
• Develop in a high risk area with sensitive data which goes beyond the scope of a standard Ruby on Rails app
• Develop and maintain our application in Elixir
• Live the complete development cycle including writing automated tests, participating in code reviews and performing deployments
• Work on scalable, high-availability services

A convincing background

• We have offices in various parts of Europe (Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Barcelona, Porto and, more recently, Valencia). XING employees come from more than 30 different countries and bring their collective experiences and culture to work every day. Some of us studied computer science, while others come from other fields or don't even have a degree-level qualification. The key common ingredient is a willingness to learn and grow.
• You care about the craft of software development and strive to build testable, predictable and simple code,
• You are able to write clean code in a Ruby on Rails environment
• You are able to code in Elixir
• You want to tackle the engineering challenges that come with building systems at scale (highly available, low latency and high throughput),
• You are curious and interested in learning new languages and frameworks,
• You have a good sense of humour and keep calm in difficult situations,
• You value transparency, honesty, humility and helping your teammates grow

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.
• Health Insurance
• 25 days of vacation per year
• A multicultural environment with employees from all over the world.
• Free breakfast, fruit, drinks, snacks and much more.
• English, German and Portuguese lessons.
• A mobile device for your private use (iPhone, iPad, Android…).
• 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 send an Email with your contact information and a CV to: [email protected] or link to an online-CV to https://xing-se.jobbase.io/job/zz1lc0f2

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