NEW WORK SE offers brands, products and services that foster a more fulfilling world of work. XING SE was renamed to NEW WORK SE in 2019 as a reflection of this commitment. The Group is headquartered in Hamburg and currently employs 1,600 people at offices including Munich, Vienna and Porto. As a subsidiary of NEW WORK SE, NEW WORK Young Professionals GmbH aims to train student workers who may stay on in the future as permanent employees.

New Work Young Professionals GmbH currently has the following vacancy in Hamburg:

Working Student (m/f/x) Software Engineering

XING Marketing Solutions is responsible for turning data into services and products. Data scientists, architects and developers across different units within New Work SE work together to create highly scalable solutions that serve about 18 million users. We work with the latest technologies in a highly international environment. Currently the Marketing Solutions unit develops and maintains a self-booking advertisement solution and implements exciting new advertising formats. To support us in our ongoing development, we are looking for a Working Student (m/f/x) Software Engineering.

A challenging task

Support our engineering team with its focus on Scala-based backend services that enable delivery of native ads for social advertising on the XING platform.

Tackle engineering challenges that go along with building distributed systems at scale (high availability, high throughput, low latency).

Learn to build reliable distributed services using Scala and the Play framework that integrate with different storage solutions (Postgres, Redis, HDFS) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

Get to know state-of-the-art build and deployment instrastructure for DevOps based on Jenkins and Kubernetes.

Work as part of our team: you will be fully integrated into our agile team and have a mentor providing support all along the way.

A convincing background

You are passionate about programming and you are eager to learn more about how to you can work together with our team to engineer scalable solutions in an industry context.

You have a solid understanding of fundamental computer science concepts and you can reason about algorithms and data structures.

You have a good level of programming experience with at least one JVM-based language (Scala is a plus).

You have good knowledge of SQL and you are familiar with version control systems like Git.

Familiarity with the functional programming paradigm is a plus.

You speak English fluently (German is not required).

You are available to work from our Hamburg offices for most of your working hours.

An inspiring environment

With offices in the centre of Hamburg, you’ll be immersed in an innovative working environment that includes flexible working hours and lots of opportunities to unleash your skills and acquire new ones.

The young professionals community offers you various ways for you to develop yourself and exchange with colleagues from all disciplines throughout the company. Not only that, you’ll also enjoy offer free organic fruit, drinks, table football tables, restaurant vouchers, a ProfiTicket public transport ticket, and more...