Tech Class

Tech Class

Heading for the top in Tech

Are you ready to kickstart your career? This is your opportunity to make your professional dreams come true and unleash your full potential. ING’s Tech Class offers you everything you need to get off to a flying start and head for the top in Tech, including:

  • The opportunity to join an established tech company
  • Three exciting and challenging technical assignments, in line with your own preferences
  • An innovative group assignment together with other members of the Tech Class
  • Working in agile squads alongside experienced and forward-thinking Tech engineers who will coach you on the job
  • A dedicated coach to guide you in your first year
  • Weekly Tech Class meetings and a unique training schedule to broaden both your Tech skills and your banking knowledge
  • Monthly Tech Class workshops on technical subjects
  • Access to the Tech Class alumni at ING to expand your network
  • A one-year contract at the start
  • A permanent contract after the first year, subject to satisfactory performance.

Tailored for you

The ING Tech Class programme gives talented Tech graduates like you the grounding to become top Tech specialists. The Tech Class has been specially tailored for recent graduates with a technical master’s degree or PhD who have set their sights on reaching the top of the Tech profession. We give starters with the right amount of drive and talent the opportunity to make a smooth transition from academic life to working as an Tech engineer.

Expect to be challenged

You’ll learn a huge amount – not only about the various aspects of Tech within ING, but also about banking and finance, which is a world with its own specific challenges. There is a strong focus on your professional and personal development. In parallel, you will gain extensive work experience by doing several rotations within different teams on very varied projects. At the end of the one-year Tech Class programme, subject to satisfactory performance, you can expect to be offered a permanent role within ING.

An international work environment

The Tech organization is located in Amsterdam, but is very internationally oriented. Business and Tech professionals work together in agile squads. Your fellow squad members are results-oriented, self-motivated professionals. They are committed to delivering optimally functioning software and keeping our systems reliable at all times.

An exciting and intensive journey

You have one clear goal in the first year: to gain maximum experience during an exciting and intensive journey within the bank. Your first year consists of four assignments: three personal rotations in three different agile squads within various Tech and business domains, and one group assignment. You and your fellow Tech Class members will work in small groups on a specific innovative project. At the end of the two months, you will deliver a working product, which you will pitch to senior management during a special Tech Class event.

What will you be doing?

Your skills can add value in countless different domains within the bank: financial markets, lending, payments, channels, finance, reporting and cash pooling solutions for Wholesale Banking customers, to name but a few. You will work in line with continuous delivery and continuous integration principles. Our system’s landscape involves in-house development, configuration of vendor solutions (including usage of their domain-specific languages), extensive automation of processes and data analysis, and many innovative new products.

These are just some examples of what you might be working on:

  • Real-time pricing systems, covering equity, fixed income and FX asset classes
  • Payment engines and order managers (handling real-time or batch processing)
  • Portal & omnichannel development, achieving the best user experience
  • Cyberfraud prevention
  • High performance computing
  • (Open) API development
  • Automation of tests and operational procedures
  • reliability engineering

Come and join the ING Tech Class!

To apply for the Tech Class, send us your CV, motivation letter and grade lists (bachelor’s and master’s grades so far). All documents should be in English.

And then… After a screening phase, you will be invited to complete an online technical assessment. The results, together with your application documents, will be analysed by a management committee. In case of a positive outcome, you will be invited for one of our digital selection days at the end of May.

During the selection day, you will be interviewed by two potential coaches, have the opportunity to talk with engineers of the Tech Class, and get all the information you need for a great transition into working at ING. At the end of the day, you hear whether you will receive an offer. The Tech Class starts on 1 September 2023.

Why the Tech Class?

ING is increasingly transforming into a digital bank and has high ambitions in terms of Tech. The bank is becoming an ever-more tech-driven organisation with an outstanding engineering culture. In order to achieve our ambitious goals, we need the very best people – not only experienced professionals, but also the most talented starters. People like you!

Interested?

It’s currently not possible to apply for the Tech class 2024 anymore.
Do you have any questions in the meantime? Don’t hesitate to contact us via Tech.Class@ing.nl

Phyllis Qian | Dev Engineer

Phyllis Qian | Dev Engineer

This is the place to be for me if I want to become a top-notch engineer

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Niels Neerhoff | Data & software engineer

Niels Neerhoff | Data & software engineer

As an engineer you have the world at your feet, and the Tech Class helps you make smarter choices

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