Senior Backend Engineer - Software Architecture

The opportunity

For the central team, in a cluster of 5 teams, we are looking for an experienced Java Developer. The teams are located in the Netherlands, Spain, India and Philipines and collaborate to create digital features for the Mortgage Advice Processes. As central team the other teams rely on a solid and high quality architecture to build their features on. As the Senior Software Developer it is your responsibility to create that high quality architecture.

ING

ING is transforming rapidly towards a top-notch IT company with a Software Craftsmanship culture, incorporating FinTech start-up mentality and financial innovation. We are end-to-end agile, work in multidisciplinary teams and use cutting edge technology. This enables us to offer our customers the best possible service and respond to rapidly changing customer demands.

The team

The multi disciplinair team of Customer Journey Experts (Business people), Developers and Operations is fully responsible for designing, developing and running their solutions. The Spring-boot applications offer functionalities to customers and advisors to interact in a digital way to create the best fitting Mortgage for the customer. Your role as a Senior Software Engineer is to design solutions together with business and developers, interact with other teams and departments and raise the improvements needed to keep the applications on a high quality level. In the team there are developers in both NL and Philipines. You will be coaching the developers in the team together with the senior engineer in the Philipines.

The central role of this team will enable you to help other teams to be successful in delivering their features. A vision on architecture is needed to make sure that any choices you make on the software architecture will maintain quality levels and keep the high pace of delivery for the entire cluster of teams.

Your personality

• You coach and help the team to the next level

• You are open, you give and accept direct feedback

• You have a focus on quality and challenge your colleagues (e.g. during peer reviews)

• You speak up and challenge decisions (you ask why things are done instead of just doing them)

• You have a strong interest and vision in recent trends in software development and technology in general. Ability to transfer this knowledge back to ING

Our stack

Our back-end APIs are created with an internal Spring-Boot based framework and run on container infrastructure. To comply with our regulators demands, our releases processes can feel bureaucratic from time to time. This means that you need to be a quick learner to understand them, and you need to have the ambition to improve and automate as much as possible.

Your skills

• Experience with Java, Maven and Spring-boot

• Experience with Relational Databases (Oracle)

• Experience with Event Streaming (Kafka)

• Experience with different architecture styles (Micro Services, Event Architecture, ports and adapters)

• Experience with CI/CD tooling (at least Git and Azure DevOps)

• Experience with the Agile/Scrum/Kanban way of working

• Proficient in English

Nice to Have

• Basic (Linux) operations and automation skills

• Experience with Front end development

• Advanced skills that help us improve our CI/CD pipeline (e.g. using Docker)

• Experience with DevOps (monitoring production, Grafana, Kibana)

• Experience in a corporate environment

(If you don’t have these, we will facilitate you the develop yourself in these areas)

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.