Proficient Software Engineer - Java

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In this position you will be at the heart of our scalable technology platforms, being accountable for delivering common banking functionalities used in most of the propositions that ING offers to its customers. 

The Touchpoint Platform is a critical enabler of ING’s strategy to become one truly global bank and is a key success factor on our path to rapidly transform from a traditional bank into a next-generation financial services platform that extends beyond banking. Through our platform, we provide a scalable foundation for digital channels and business solutions and position ING successfully in the new banking ecosystem.

The team

As Global Customer Data Management we empower ING by providing a single customer view, digital access to all customers, and standardized business services. We are developing high-speed, high-volume solutions that must be available 24/7. To deal with the complexity of serving millions of customer data in different countries, we work with an innovative framework based on Domain Driven Design. This is the place where you will make an impact on ING’s strategy, serving both retail business, and wholesale banking client segments around the globe. You will be part of a chapter of diverse Engineers, all working on different business domains of customer data.

Role & Responsibilities

You will be working in a Bus-Dev-Ops squad. This means working on cross border solutions and providing services to ING worldwide. The average squad consists of engineers, customer journey experts and a product owner. As a team you are end-to-end responsible for the customer journey you are working on. You own the stack and the journey!

• Full software lifecycle development (coding, testing, deployment, incident handling)

• Build microservices-based applications that run natively in the cloud.

• Influence technology choices and contribute to the architecture of newly developed components and services.

• Design and develop automated unit, integration, and performance tests.

• Collaborate with the relevant stakeholders to interpret business requirements and deliver features with real business value.

• Ensure software security by applying timely updates and aiming for zero IT risk.

• Foster a collaborative team environment and actively learn from your colleagues.

• Be precise and accurate in your delivered work.

• Optimization of the service stability and continuity.

• Stimulate a culture of learning by doing (incremental), also share knowledge and mentor team members.

• Stimulate a continuous delivery culture in terms of services and working conditions.

• Support the applications, you are working on, in production environment (part of the on-call support weekly shifts).

• Support for creating a friendly work environment based on respect, trust, and partnership values.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility, be a true team player, and voice your opinion. You have an instinctive need to share knowledge and continuously improve yourself and the team.

We are looking for a person who:

• Has a relevant higher education or university degree.

• Has at least 10+ years of Professional software engineering experience (design, develop and maintain highly available and resilient applications)

• Is an excellent team player, great challenger, customer centric and eager to learn.

• You have a learning attitude. Not only to master new technologies and programming languages but also on a personal level.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – ability to explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Has experience and understand the benefits of the agile scrum methodology.

• Embrace a DevOps mindset, taking ownership of refining, coding, testing, and deploying your work

• You are open to give and receive feedback

• You help others to be successful

• Recognize the "why" in addition to the "what," and push for improvements.

• to work cooperatively both between and within squads.

• Holds knowledge and experience on most of the following technical skills and competences:

  • Experience with running & maintaining a RESTful microservice based application, built with Java 11/17 & Spring Boot 3.x.

  • Experience with Cloud native applications.

  • Experience with common tools such as bash, Maven, SBT, Git

  • Experience with monitoring and alerting (Prometheus/Grafana), Elastic search

  • Experience with writing secure code.

  • Strong experience with JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber (TDD/BDD)

  • Embrace a DevOps mindset, taking ownership of refining, coding, testing, and deploying your work

  • Good knowledge in Functional Programming

  • Good understanding of domain driven and behavior Driven design

Nice to have

• Good to have experience with Cassandra, Elasticsearch

• Experience working with containers (Docker / Kubernetes)

• Performance tuning of Java\Spring applications. Able to do profiling, memory analysis etc

• Experience in Azure DevOps is a plus 

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.