Backend Engineers (m/f/x) (Hamburg)

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 backend 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.

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.

• A lot of Ruby, and increasingly a wide variety of programming
  languages: Java, Scala, Elixir, PHP and, most recently, Kotlin.
  We’ll match you with the right technology team depending on your
  background and preferences.
• Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and alerting.
• CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, deployed to Kubernetes clusters
  hosted in our data centres in Amsterdam.
• Kafka and RabbitMQ as message queues, the former is now
  increasingly used for event-driven systems.
• Different databases for different needs: MySQL, Postgres,
  Cassandra, MongoDB, Elastic Search…
• GraphQL (implemented in Scala & Sangria) for our mobile and
  web APIs

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 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.

We work in diverse, small and cross-functional teams, and we
value the principles underpinning the agile manifesto.

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.

We try to make working in cross-location teams with as little
friction as possible. We believe in flexibility when it comes to
choosing when and where you deliver top-notch work.

In your team, you’ll not only interact with colleagues who have
various technology backgrounds (backend/frontend/iOS/Android
engineers), you’ll also work with product owners, designers, and
data scientists. We work with Scrum or Kanban in our teams
(depending on the team’s choice), conduct regular retrospectives,
and have agile coaches who mentor the team to ensure things are
done in line with best practices.

We support continuous learning.

Every engineer at XING has an annual conference allowance. We
also offer regular internal training sessions, meetups and brownbag
lunches throughout the year, as well as the opportunity to speak at
conferences – we’ll support you where we can. Other than training
sessions, you’ll have ample opportunity to grow and learn at work.
We work in cross-functional teams, giving you the opportunity to
learn and contribute to areas in which you might not yet be an
expert. We’ll always support you in growing your career, be it
moving into a new technology stack, learning leadership skills or
gathering enough knowledge in a certain field so as to become an
expert.

These training sessions are complemented by fun hack weeks held
three times a year
where engineers are free to choose whatever they
want to work on and learn new technologies. Sometimes they build
wacky stuff like arcade machines or karaoke systems. Sometimes they
explore many up and coming technologies: using Elm when building
frontend applications, implementing parsers using Haskell,
exploring Istio for microservices infrastructure, building Ethereum
smart contracts using Solidity, and much more…