Senior backend engineer at Channels NL

About this role

ING is looking for a senior backend engineer to strengthen our Channels NL domain. You will build and maintain the digital orientation sales backends to offer the best user experience for our retail customers. Are you an engineer driven by innovation and creativity? Do you possess good communication skills and a passion for pushing the boundaries of modern engineering? We invite you to our dynamic team, where your talents will help shape the future of our channels.

The team

Join ING Netherlands as a Backend Engineer where you will be part of a cross-functional team of talented individuals. Together, your team will work with the latest technologies to innovate and develop solutions.

Roles and responsibilities

You will be working in a DevOps squad in retail banking. With the squad you are end-to-end responsible for the customer journey you are working on. You own the stack and the journey!

• Develop and maintain reliable applications
• Write automated tests
• Setup CI/CD pipelines
• Adopt a DevOps and Agile mindset
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define and design features
• Incorporate security best practices into all stages of the development
• Contribute to the team’s growth through mentorship and technical interview participation
• Continuously learn and stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends

Required skills

• Java 11+ and Spring Boot (API)
• Experience in code versioning tools, preferably Git
• Experience in Test Automation (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Working knowledge in RESTful API Development
• Behaviour Driven Development, Domain Driven Design
• Monitoring (ELK, Grafana)
• Kafka
• SQL

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• First and foremost, you need to be a strong coder, have an interest in IT security, and develop with reliability in mind.
• You are an experienced engineer with more than 5 years of experience in Java development using Spring (boot). Ideally you have experience with Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cassandra and Kafka.
• You have great analytical skills and conceptual understanding.
• You can quickly understand new technical concepts and technology, and you have a strong interest in, and vision of, the latest trends in software development and technology.
• You must be a true team player. You will work in a multidisciplinary team of engineers and business colleagues.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues