XING SE

Barcelona, Spain | Posted: 5 years ago

XING is the social network for business professionals with millions of members all over the world. Help us shape the future – for a better working life!

We currently have an opening at our headquarters in Barcelona for a Ruby on Rails Developer.
 

On the day to day...

You will be part of the XING Events business unit, that is also located in Munich, Germany. You will work on existing and new products that engage users to communicate offline and online. You will:

• Work within a new cross-functional team that uses the Ruby on Rails, React, iOS, and Android technology stacks.


• Implement and test features in the web and backend parts of the app.


• Work within the XING technology environment, including GitHub, ElasticSearch, MySQL, RabbitMQ etc.


• Take part in the creation of completely new products and features.


• Contribute massively with your passion and hands-on to our new features and products that engage users to meet and exchange online and offline, or innovate existing ones such as such as xing.com/communities.

 What defines you?

• You are a passionate web developer with experience in Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, and JS.


• You are used to test your code (unit tests, TDD).


• You have a university or polytechnical degree in software engineering or relevant experience.


• You like to stay on the cutting edge of software development and have been building applications that serve the user and scale seamlessly.


• You get things done, have a positive mindset, and are known as a motivated team player with good communication skills (English a must, any other languages optional)


• You enjoy working in agile teams with a focus on sharing knowledge with your colleagues sitting next to you or on the other side of Europe.


• You pay attention to detail without losing sight of the goal, have a sense of ownership and pride in the quality of your work.


• You have a good sense of humor, an unpretentiousness and humbleness towards other people and are eager to work in a multicultural environment.


• Fluent English is required as it's the working language on a daily basis.

An inspiring environment

• Training, conferences and many opportunities to learn, experiment and grow.


• A great, multicultural and diverse environment.


• Regular innovation weeks


• Flexible working hours and some days “work from home”


• Restaurant tickets, fresh fruit, coffee, snacks and much more.


• Flexible compensation plan, if you wish to diversify and increase your net salary: Health insurance/ Transport/ Nursery Tickets


• Spanish / German lessons.


• A mobile device of your choice as well for private use (iPhone, iPad, Android…).


• A sunny office located in the centre of Barcelona, with a large terrace.


• 26 + 4 working days of holidays


• Competitive salary and a Permanent contract


• Large, highly distributed platform with over 14 million users.


• A variety of technologies and languages: Perl, Ruby on Rails, Java, Scala, Elasticsearch, REST, React, AMQP, Linux, Hadoop, Riak, MongoDB, MySQL, Solr, iOS, Android, Backbone.js, Git, Jenkins…


• Relocation pack if needed.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

 We're an Open Source contributor (https://github.com/xing) and we also organise public user groups and coding events, such as Ruby on Rails and other Tech Meetups.

Check our Blog https://tech.xing.com/ and BCN Twitter account! https://twitter.com/xing_bcn