Java Developer - IPA Tradestore 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, software and soft skills are equally important | 78% of our IT colleagues agree

The Mission

In the Financial Market environment, building a platform integrating your own pricing and risk models is crucial to stay in control of your risk while keeping a competitive edge. ING Financial Markets has taken up the challenge by initiating the building of the ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform.

The IPA project landscape consists of service-oriented components that will enable the real-time and portfolio calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) which are driven by new ECB regulation as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This will be a key platform in the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms, with 10 scrum teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape.

The Trade Store project is one of the essential applications within the IPA domain. It serves the strategic Area purpose of pricing trade portfolios in a uniform way, regardless of data formats or additional complexities of various deal capture systems within the bank (e.g. Murex, Summit). Aside from secondary purposes, the Trade Store application is responsible of:

Capturing all trade feeds within the bank via various integration methods, and handling their lifecycle;

Modelling the data in a uniform format based on each specific product using Google protocol buffers and compressed serialization;

• Serving the data via high throughput APIs based on Google RPCs and distributed in memory caching systems for EOD risk pricing purposes;

• Streaming the data for pre-deal pricing purposes;

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 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 Apache Ignite as a Big Data distributed database solution for in-memory caching and in-memory computing;

• Kafka - TODO

• 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 bring to the team:

• Experience: 5+ years of Java software engineering experience;

• 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;

• Experience in Continuous Delivery;

• Experience in NoSQL or at least SQL and relational modeling;

• Good understanding of Software Architecture;

• Good understanding of banking in general or interest in learning about it;

• Experience within the financial markets’ IT domain or familiarity with different types of securities and derivative trade products and their purposes;

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

• Foreign languages: English (advanced)

• Nice to have:

- A good working knowledge of the Star Wars universe and the dark side is also a plus;

- Experience with Apache Ignite or other distributed databases;

- Experience working with micro services.