Frontend Developer

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!

XING Events is responsible for the events and communities part of the XING social network. Our goal is to create valuable experiences for our users by engaging with other users, either in an offline event or meeting, or in one of our many online communities. For that we are offering e.g. the events market (xing.com/events), the communities (xing.com/communities) and also an online event ticketing solution (en.xing-events.com/our-services/ticketing).Always keeping our vision in mind: "For people moments that matter".

We currently have an opening for a Frontend Developer at our headquarters in Barcelona.

A challenging task:You will be part of a cross-functional team of backend, iOS/Android engineers, designers and product ownersYou will build front end solutions You will optimise for mobile devices, browser performance and create cross-browser compatible solutions

A convincing background:You have been working with some MVC framework (Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Django...) You have experience with single page apps developmentYou are able to do blindfolded semantic HTML and modern CSSYou are familiar with the principles of a high-performance, optimised, responsive mobile website.You have a test-driven development mindsetFamiliarity and experience with GraphQL is a plusYou are generally very curious about new technologies and always try to keep up-to-dateYou enjoy working in agile teams with a focus on sharing knowledge with your colleagues sitting next to you or on the other side of EuropeYou pay attention to detail without losing sight of the goal, have a sense of ownership and pride in the quality of your workYou have a good sense of humor, an unpretentiousness and humbleness towards other people and are eager to work in a multicultural environmentYou are fluent in English

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.• 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.• Flexible Compensation Plan: Health insurance/ Transport/ Nursery Tickets• Extended holidays• Competitive salary and a Permanent contract• Bicycle park and package reception• 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 Twitter account! https://twitter.com/xing_bcn