Novice Backend Engineer

At ING we are looking for a Novice Backend Engineer

• Mortgages
• Consumer Lending
• Daily Banking & Savings
• Payments

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Engineer Backend to join us.

As an experienced Software Engineer Backend
, your aim will be:

To design, develop and test the code that will shape the different components of the application, ensuring that they meet the requirements of functionality, quality and performance.

To deliver in Production a working software by giving the best use to technology and development practices. It includes documentation and parameters that can help reaching that goal. To support Production by analysis and fixing any bugs that occur. Contribute to improve the technical discipline by collaborating with the cross technical chapter.

As an expert in the Backend area, you specifically add value on that technical layer but always keep in mind the rest of the technical stack as part of the Squad responsibilities.

Your major responsibility areas:

• Coding
• Stories Refinement
• Environments management
• Release
• Monitoring

As a Software Engineer Backend for one of our retail tribes you should have the following knowledge and experience:

• Good coding skills on all Middleware layer:
  Java 8/11/17
• Spring (Boot, MVC, CORE, Security, Dependency Injection)
• Microservices:
  Hexagonal architecture;
  Patterns (Circuit Breaker, API Gateway, Service Discovery);
  Feature Flags
• Design Patterns, SOLID, Clean Code, Software Craftmanship
• Back End & Dev Ops awareness (understand the global architecture / infrastructure)
• Testing:
  Unit Testing (Techniques: White-box/ Black-box, What is a unit?);
  Types of testing (unit testing, integration and smoke); JUnit;
  Contract Testing;
  Framework mocks (Mockito, Mock Mvc, Wire Mock, Power Mock)
• Maven
• Docker, Open Shift or Kubernetes
• Ansible
• Git
• DDD
• CI / CD pipelines
• 5 - 8 years of experience on similar technical stack
• Agile team experience with SCRUM or Kanban or XP
• Excellent speaking and writing skills in English is a must
• Strong communication skills

• Knowledge in Domain Driven Design, CQRS
• Knowledge of Agile Frameworks: SCRUM and Kanban
• Dev Ops skills
• Azure (pipelines)
• Retail banking knowledge
• Database migration (Flyway, Liquibase)
• Security: JWT, Mutual TLS, Access token
• BDD
• Reactive programming, futures
• Akka, Scala
• No
  
  SQL knowledge (Cassandra, Mongo
  
  DB)
• Message Brokers (Rabbit
  
  MQ, Kafka)
• Apache Camel
• Automatic testing (Selenium, Cucumber)
• Elastic Search, Log Stash, Kibana
• Grafana
• Java script / HTML / CSS

• Flexible work model and accountability; you decide home‑work days.
• Restaurant card.
• Office services: electric mobility, doctor, hairdresser, gym, etc.
• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible remuneration (tax‑advantaged).
• Company shuttle.
• Banking benefits: special loans, mortgage conditions, pension plan.
• Wellbeing services and employee networks.

• Apply only via official ING platforms:
  Workday and Linked In.
• Check sender’s email: legitimate ones come from  or
• No payments or banking details are requested. If asked, it’s a scam.