Senior Java Software Engineer - Financial Markets @ING Hubs Romania
Employee | Tech | Professional | Bucharest | CLUJ-NAPOCA | 2024-11-27 | REQ-10081492
Discover 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
Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.
Within FM, in Competitive Pricing area, we have ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform, which consists of multiple components that enable real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. XVA, PFE, Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining, pre-deal derivatives Pricing) which are driven by new banking regulations as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with aprox. 30 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore), cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.
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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