Java Developer – IPA Static Data Manager 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

The ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform 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 7-9 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-drive architecture

• Aim for serverless solutions based on Kubernetes, Docker, containers, and virtualization

• Influence technology choices and architecture of newly build components and services

• Support users with investigations on business flows and defects that they encounter during testing

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

• Have a focus on quality while working with JUnit, Mockito, Power Mock or BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, but also Gatling in order to assess performance

• 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:

    • Knowledge of Java 11+ and SpringBoot 3.x

    • Knowledge on project lifecycle management tools like Maven or Gradle

    • Comfortable with relational databases – we use Oracle for our storage

    • Familiarity with source control, CI/CD and documentation tools. On our side we are using Azure DevOps, Openshift, Git and Confluence

    • Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and ability to work in cross-border international teams

  • Nice to have:

    • Familiarity with caching tools like Redis or Ehcache

    • Familiarity with Elastic stack and how to query logs.

    • Experience with Google Protobuf and gRPC

    • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts

    • Familiarity with microservices building blocks

    • Willingness to learn more about the Financial Markets landscape

• Foreign languages: English (advanced)

• Education: nice to have Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an IT related field

What’s in it for you

• Annual Performance Bonus up to two salaries

• Extra vacation days depending on the total length of working experience

• Flextime – our own way of working

• Monthly budget on Benefit platform

• Growth opportunities

  • Defining a clear career path on short/ mid/ long term and identify the competencies you need to build/ develop to reach the next level: vertically – towards a managerial position or horizontally – towards an expert or architect level, locally or globally

  • Internal mobility is encouraged

  • Possibility to access International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments

  • Upskilling/ reskilling programs

• Learning & Development opportunities

  • Annual training & certifications budget

  • Pluralsight & e-learning platforms

• CSR activities: tree planting, coding lessons for teenagers etc.