We currently have a job opening for a Senior Software Developer - Perl, available at the soonest possible starting date. The position is based at our headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.

XING makes your professional network an active part of your life. Far more than a directory of business contacts, XING enables its members to discover professional people, opportunities and privileges through its unique discovery capability and advanced contact management tools.

With the successful IPO of XING as the first Web 2.0 company to go public, XING AG has had a long-term impact on the social networking trend amongst professionals. By focusing on the target group “business people worldwide”, the company is able to offer tailored features, thereby making networking and contact management simpler. Besides headquarters in Hamburg, XING AG is also represented with offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Milan.

Summary of Key Responsibilities: 

• Software development in teams of approx. 4-8 Perl developers (Environment: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, HTML, CSS and Ajax)
• Close conceptual cooperation with the respective product owner
• Agile software development

 

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Several years’ experience and in-depth knowledge of the development of database Web applications
• Very good knowledge of the respective programming languages sought
• Ideally, experience in performance optimization and scalability, as well as experience working with Web technologies such as Perl, Java, PHP or Ruby
• Excellent analytical skills
• An enthusiasm for and creative approach to solving difficult programming problems
• Good communication skills
• Good English skills

 

What we offer:

• Working on a high availability, high performance, high traffic, high attention website with more than 8 million users
• Working on large, distributed, asynchronous architectures
• Team centric software development (code reviews, mentoring)
• We use Open Source software wherever possible and we contribute back
• Central location, near the beautiful Alster
• Free beverages and fruits

 

If this profile matches your expertise, experience and aspirations, we’d be delighted to receive your complete application, including salary requirements and a possible starting date. Please email your application in English or German to en-jobs@xing.com.

TIP: You can read our Company Weblog openBLOG to gain an insight into our corporate culture, our values and vision.

 

Contact us

XING AG Human Resources Gaensemarkt 43 D-20354 Hamburg Germany

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