Senior Java Software Engineer @ING Hubs Romania

Senior Java Software Engineer Inside Business Portal

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 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, 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 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services. 

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?  

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

• At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission

ING Hubs Romania is looking for a strong developer who is technically passionate, solution-focused and able to design, develop, test, maintain and expand the functionalities of the Inside Business Portal that is used by corporate clients (operating in 40 countries) globally.

With functionalities such as Service Requests or Client Insights, we aim to empower our colleagues to help clients better & faster with their requests. At the same time, we are focusing on increasing and improving our applications resilience when it comes to security, quality gates, monitoring, alerting and so on.

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:

Delivery and Improvements:

• Design and develop new features from scratch and improve existing ones.
• Do code reviews, write unit tests, make code refactoring and take care of technical debt.
• Align and discuss solutions directly with stakeholders.
• Work in an agile environment, based on a lot of research, collaboration and "learn from failure" way of working, with highly impactful deliveries.
• Have a direct impact on the business improvements through developing and being part of the strategic deliveries.
• Provide hands-on support to colleagues when investigating production issues/outages.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: 3+ years of industry experience in IT (dev)
• Tech stack/ knowledge:
• Essential:
• Use Linux as deployment environment.
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts. Interactions with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Maven.
• Experience with building services from scratch and developing on top of existing components.
• Experience with the entire software development life cycle.
• Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps or similar tools + Confluence, Checkmarx, ServiceNow.
• Work with Oracle as a database. Experience in SQL and relational modeling.
• Have a focus on quality while working with Junit, Mokito, Power Mock, as well as BDD frameworks such as cucumber.
• Work with SpringBoot and other Spring modules (web, data, security) or any other dependency injection framework.
• Highly proficient development skills – core server-side Java
• Nice to have:
• Flexibility in development technologies. Expected to work with different technologies and languages (Java, Python)
• Experience in optimizing software for performance.
• Experience with messaging technologies and protocols.
• Personal Competencies:
• Essential:
• Genuine team player
• Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology.
• Ability to deliver without much supervision.
• Proactive behavior and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance.
• Hands-on mentality
• Nice to have:
• Clear, concise and transparent communicator.
• Passion for mentoring junior colleagues.
• Foreign languages: English (advanced spoken and written is a must)
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in, preferably, an IT related field