Java Developer - IPA Hedge Accounting Team @ING Hubs Romania

Discover ING Hubs Romania

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.

Formerly known as ING Tech, as of 2022 we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities under the name of ING Hubs Romania and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

With the help of over 1600 engineers, risk, and operations professionals, we offer 130 services in tech, non-financial risk & compliance, audit and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1300 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. Work ethics, honesty and knowledge sharing are key to our teams and we’re always looking for like-minded people.

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

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. As a Senior Java Developer you will: 

• Work with Java 17 with a strong focus on functional programming;

• Work with Spring Boot and other Spring modules (web, data, security) or any other dependency injection framework;

• Work with Oracle as a database

• Work with Kafka for communication via events

• Design and develop gRPC and REST services in a Big Data ecosystem;

• Apply Domain Driven Design and Test Driven Design principles in your day to day development

• Have a performance mindset in terms of being familiar with API performance benchmarking, garbage collection fine tuning, application profiling, processing and transferring large data sets, facilitating real time results, designing features in a scalable architecture;

• Work with streaming technologies such as JMS for service orchestration or for data sourcing purposes;

• Have a focus on quality while working with JUnit, Mockito, Power Mock, as well as BDD frameworks such as Cucumber;

• Use a Linux deployment environment. 

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience:

  • 5+ years of Java software engineering experience

• Skills/knowledge:

  • A good understanding of trade products related to derivates as well as securities;

  • Advanced knowledge of Java;

  • Experience with any dependency injection framework;

  • Experience in developing automated testing;

  • Familiarity Azure DevOps or similar tools such as Confluence, JIRA, Fortify, Gitlab, Jenkins, Maven;

  • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts;

  • Good communication skills, in English and Romanian;

  • Strong analytical skills, proactivity and willingness to share knowledge with others;

  • Experience in SQL and relational modeling;

  • End-to-end ownership mindset: Independent and autonomous in completing tasks, taking responsibilities whenever needed as always striving for consumer value;

  • Foreign languages: English (excellent level)

  • Education: University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering or equivalent