Senior Java Software Engineer - Financial Markets @ING Hubs Romania

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission

In the Financial Market (FM) environment, building a platform integrating your own pricing and risk models is crucial to stay in control of your risk while keeping a competitive edge.

We currently have three openings in the following projects within the FM environment:

1. IPA SWAT

The IPA platform consisting of service-oriented components that will enable the real-time and portfolio calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) which are driven by new ECB regulation as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This will be a key platform in the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms, with over 10 scrum teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape. IPA SWAT squad’s purpose is twofold. First is to work across all IPA components facilitating teams when they don’t have enough capacity or when they need to deliver a highly technical feature, and second SWAT squad should help in doing POCs to validate certain use cases or new technologies and to help kickstart new projects by delivering the MVP and help in staffing the squad.

2. IPA Trade Store

The Trade Store project is one of the essential applications within the IPA domain. It serves the strategic Area purpose of pricing trade portfolios in a uniform way, regardless of data formats or additional complexities of various deal capture systems within the bank (e.g. Murex, Summit). Aside from secondary purposes, the Trade Store application is responsible of:

• Capturing all trade feeds within the bank via various integration methods, and handling their lifecycle;
• Modelling the data in a uniform format based on each specific product using Google protocol buffers and compressed serialization;
• Serving the data via high throughput APIs based on Google RPCs and distributed in memory caching systems for EOD risk pricing purposes;
• Streaming the data for pre-deal pricing purposes;

3. Active Pivot (AP) - Risk Reporting

Active Pivot is an important part of Competitive Pricing area allowing risk managers to analyze trade data coming from various deal capture systems within the bank (e.g. Summit, Murex). We deliver VaR (Value at Risk), PnL (Profit and Loss) and Risk metrics that enable our stakeholders to do daily market & credit risk analysis for decision making on portfolio risks and limit monitoring.

In addition, we play a key role for internal and regulatory reporting by providing a sign off process to guarantee correctness of figures and by allowing slice and dice on aggregated data coming from all input systems, regardless of data format.

As we have broadened our scope recently, new applications were onboarded to support additional business requirements like facilitating the explanation of VaR figures or applying the regulatory aggregation and calculation rules to provide Market Risk Managers with the capital requirements.

Your day to day

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• Work on the latest technologies with a strong focus on performance, large data sets and towards event-driven architecture
• Aim for serverless solutions based on Kubernetes, Docker, containers, and virtualization
• Influence technology choices and architecture of newly build components and services
• Design and develop automated unit, integration, and regression tests
• Support users with investigations on business flows and defects that they encounter during testing
• Have a performance mindset in terms of being familiar with garbage collection fine tuning, application profiling, processing and transferring large data sets
• Continuous integration and delivery using Azure DevOps
• Through Agile/Scrum collaborate with other colleagues and Product Owner to refine and break down features into stories or tasks
• Ensure delivery and support on the production environment to our global users

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering in JVM language and related technology stack
• Tech stack/ knowledge:
  • Mandatory:
    • Ability to write clean and maintainable code
    • Knowledge of Java 17+, SpringBoot 3.x and Kafka
    • Good knowledge of relational databases – we mainly use Oracle for storage
    • Experience with NoSQL and BLOB storage – we are using Redis, Apache Ignite and S3
    • Familiarity with source control, CI/CD and documentation tools. On our side we are using Azure DevOps, Git, Maven and Confluence
    • Have a mentality to test your code using various frameworks like Junit, Mockito, or BDD frameworks like Cucumber or Karate
    • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes using OpenShift as orchestration
    • Knowledge of various communication protocols like HTTP1/2, Messaging, RPCs, etc.
    • Familiarity with different architecture patterns (i.e. monolith vs microservices)
    • Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and ability to work in cross-border international teams
  • Nice to have:
    • Performance testing with tools like JMeter, Gatling
    • Exposing meaningful metrics to have proper monitoring and alerting and ability to perform profiling to better understand the application
    • Google Protobuf and gRPC
    • Familiarity with Elastic stack and how to query logs
    • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts
    • Experience with other JVM languages or other programming languages like C++, Rust, Python
    • Willingness to learn more about the Financial Markets landscape
    • Experience in the Financial Markets domain or statistical analysis.
• Foreign languages: English (advanced)
• Education: nice to have Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an IT related field

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