Data Software Engineer (m/f/x)

You will be part of an international team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers that is responsible for turning data into services and products which is used by Millions of users. As a central data team, we work closely together with product teams in an agile setting and focus on improving our existing data models, services, ML Models and developing new data-driven services that benefit the users of XING.  
We are now seeking an experienced Data Engineer (ideally experienced in Scala) who loves software development, helps with the design and development of scalable components and contributes to our machine learning and LLM models. We strive to build testable, predictable and simple code.

• Work in a team with Data Engineers and Data Scientists to contribute to the (technical) design, implementation and evaluation of new algorithms, machine learning models and other data-driven features and services. 
• Design and implement components in a sustainable fashion (e.g. having on observability, computational costs, ease of use, future maintenance costs) 
• Build, deploy, monitor and operate services within our infrastructure, while automating processes. 
• Use technologies like Scala, Kafka, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Hive, Spark and Hadoop 

• BSc or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent Software Engineering experience 
• Very good programming skills in Scala and Python 
• Knowledge and experience in implementing scalable software and services which process large volume of data (e.g. real-time processing components, REST services), using search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.), data storage (e.g. relational databases, key-value stores) and related data processing technologies (e.g. Kafka, Akka, Play, etc.) 
• Proficient English language skills (German is not required) 

 

• Nice to have 
• Experience in designing architectures and developing software components for distributed systems (e.g. in the context of micro-service architectures)  
• Experience in building libraries, frameworks or platform services that other Software Engineers use  
• Good knowledge in SQL 
• Previous experience in working with recommender systems or search services 

• Health consulting services
• Height-adjustable desks
• Company pension
• Mobile devices also for private use
• Drinks, food & goodies
• public transport ticket
• Bike leasing
• Sabbatical and part-time options
• Restaurant vouchers and employee discount
• Bring your dog to the office