Key Responsibilities
1. Platform Development & Architecture
- Design and implement backend services supporting MADP capabilities
- Contribute to an event-driven architecture (event sourcing, CQRS, messaging)
- Build and evolve platform-level components (not just feature-specific code)
- Ensure solutions are reusable, scalable, and aligned with platform principles
2. API & Integration Design
- Design and implement robust, versioned APIs for data access and integration
- Ensure backward/forward compatibility and stability of API contracts
- Integrate with upstream and downstream systems (e.g. OnePAM ecosystem)
3. Data Modelling & Lifecycle Management
- Contribute to domain-driven data modelling
- Manage schema evolution, ensuring minimal impact on consumers
- Ensure alignment with data governance and data quality rules
- Understand and handle data lifecycle complexity (creation, update, deletion, versioning)
4. Platform Engineering & CI/CD
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, and promotion flows
- Support the separation between:
- Platform lifecycle
- Tenant/domain lifecycle
- Improve automation, deployment standards, and engineering practices
5. Operability & Reliability
- Ensure solutions are production-ready and observable
- Contribute to:
- Monitoring & observability
- Incident resolution
- Performance optimization
- Support a high availability, multi-tenant platform
6. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
- Work closely with:
- Architects, Data Stewards, and Product Owners
- Operations and Security teams
- Actively document, explain, and share knowledge
- Contribute to a transparent and maintainable platform (no “black box” systems)
Required Skills & Experience
Core Technical Skills
- Strong experience in backend development (Java / Spring Boot or similar)
- Proven experience with event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of:
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
- Distributed systems design
- Strong experience in API design and integration patterns
Data & Platform Expertise
- Experience with:
- Data modelling (schema design, evolution)
- Handling data lifecycle and versioning
- Familiarity with data governance and access control concepts
- Experience building or contributing to platforms (not just applications)
DevOps & Engineering Practices
- Knowledge of:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git branching strategies
- Deployment and release management
- Familiarity with cloud and distributed infrastructure
Skills Required
- Strong experience in backend development using Java, Spring Boot, or a similar technology.
- Proven experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka or an equivalent technology.
- Solid understanding of event sourcing and CQRS patterns.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems design.
- Strong experience in API design and integration patterns.
- Experience with data modeling, schema design, and schema evolution.
- Experience handling data lifecycle and versioning.
- Familiarity with data governance and access control concepts.
- Experience building or contributing to platform-level systems rather than only applications.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git branching strategies, and deployment and release management.
- Familiarity with cloud and distributed infrastructure.
What We Do
ING is a pioneer in digital banking and on the forefront as one of the most innovative banks in the world. As ING, we have a clear purpose that represents our conviction of people’s potential. We don’t judge, coach, or tell people how to live their lives. However big or small, modest or grand, we empower people and businesses to realise their vision for a better future. We made the promise to make banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress, and make people confident in their financial decisions. As a global bank we have a huge opportunity – and responsibility – to make an impact for the better. We can play a role by financing change, sharing knowledge, and innovating. Being sustainable is in all the choices we make—as a lender, as a partner and through the services we offer our customers
