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Senior Java Software Engineer - Financial Markets @ING Hubs Romania

Employee | Tech | Professional | Romania | Bucharest | Cluj-Napoca | 2024-11-27 | REQ-10081492

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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

If you want to deep dive into the processing of personal data conducted by ING Hubs Romania during the recruitment process and your rights related to it, read the privacy notices on our website (make sure to scroll until you reach the Data Protection section/ Candidates tab). 

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Questions about this opportunity?

Feel free to contact Andreea Patrau, Recruiter. e-mail: andreea.patrau@ing.com

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