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.

With the help of 1400 engineers, risk and operations professionals, we offer 150 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 1100 colleagues active in Data Management, TouchPoint Channels & Integration and Core Banking.

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, your code reaches millions | 75% of our IT colleagues agree

The Mission

ING is looking for driven Java Dev Engineers, with a focus on quality and delivery, to work on the FX and Money Markets trading platforms. The in-house built high-performance pricing systems and interfaces, together with the vendor-built trading/quoting systems, time-series databases and complex event processing engines are key platforms for the real-time low-latency landscape in scope of the growing Financial Markets domain.

ING is using this environment to connect to a large amount of trading exchanges worldwide to offer the sharpest pricing quotes and executions to our clients. Therefore, these systems are on dedicated infrastructure in special datacenters located in close proximity to the key markets.

The team consists of 13 engineers at a global level with 10 of them based in the Broadway chapter in ING Hubs Bucharest.

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:

Delivery and Improvements:
• Design and develop new features from scratch and improve existing ones
• Do code reviews, write unit tests, make code refactoring and take care of technical debt
• Align directly with the FO users (traders), Customer Journey Experts and Product Owner to understand and capture their issues, concerns, requirements
• Propose opportunities and innovations
• Work with and understand the vendor’s object-based API and architecture
• Provide trainings and knowledge sharing sessions while getting in depth of low latency coding

What you’ll bring to the team

Experience: 5+ years of industry experience in IT (dev)

Tech stack/ knowledge:

o Mandatory:
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies
• An excellent spoken and written command of English
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts. Interactions with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Maven
• Experience with working with APIs and developing on top of existing components
• Experience working with design patterns and being comfortable with software architecture designing

o Nice to have:
• Banking/Financial Markets products/processes knowledge (FX Products, FIX protocol)
• Hands-on knowledge of scripting (Python) and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Vertx, Grafana, Elastic Search)
• Experience with running applications in Docker containers and developing high availability applications

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
Bucharest Romania

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