Junior Java Developer

We are looking for a Dev engineer with modern day engineering skills and competences like an eye for innovation, creativity, attention for detail and communication.

This position is suitable for recent graduates or candidates with up to 3 years of relevant working experience.

The team

You will be part of the Customer Data Area within ING Bank NL.  The products and services of Customer Data are essential for the everyday financial needs of our customers. Without access to the data of our customers for all journeys in the bank, customer cannot see their data, perform a transaction on their (current) account, close a mortgage or get a business loan; all journeys would fail without access to data of our customers.

To ensure our customers are in control, we also enable a smooth administration of their personal data (name, address, etc.) and the roles and mandates. We do so for businesses and private individuals. We are responsible for the development of the web features for offering best in-class digital experience to our customers. Within Customer Data our teams are responsible for all digital flows to manage customer data via self-service or via assisted services. Therefore, one can truly state: the products and services from the Customer Data are the oxygen of all customer interactions with the bank.

Role & Responsibilities

• As our new Dev Engineer, you will have a key role in ensuring that everything we do has quality and stability by keeping compliance in mind.
• You are responsible for day-to day activities that range from building a product, test automation, monitoring, involve in standby, incident and change management, test strategy, automated deployments and supporting the application in the production environment.
• Implementing and enforcing quality controls
• Participate in user story refinement, ask all the “but what if” questions, propagate example mapping and ensure adequate acceptance criteria are defined (functional as well as non-functional)
• Enforcing compliance with Definition of Read and Definition of Done
• Full test automation of functional tests and regression tests, manual testing when and where required
• Supporting Disaster Recovery Tests and Security Penetration Testing
• Monitoring the health of our application, using tools like: Kibana and Grafana
• Keep our application compliance with IT risk policies
• Supporting the application through ITIL processes, among which: Incident, Problem and Change Management
• Managing and improving the Deployment Pipeline and embedding quality controls as part of it.

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.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering
• 0 to 3 years of software engineering experience, preferably in creating highly scalable, secure and high-performance applications
• Challenging the status quo by improving, simplifying, automating and when being the example is part of your DNA
• Knowledge of Java
• ITIL knowledge (Incident, Problem and Change Management)
• Experience of CI/CD practice as well as Azure Pipeline
• Agile team experience with SCRUM
• Linux Knowledge
• Testing skills
• Using Test Automation Frameworks for defining and running automated tests
• Automation mindset
• Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way of working
• Diplomacy and good communication skills

What we have offer you

• A job from 36 to 40 hours and a unique offer that fits in with the times of today. We consider your home situation and your ambitions and help you to balance work and private life. Discover yourself our employment conditions.
• To give you an idea, we will tell you about the benefits of working at ING:
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work at home
• Reimbursement for travel expenses
• 24 vacation days with a 36-hour working week. If you work 40 hours a week, you will receive 27 vacation days
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution comprising of 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% holiday payment
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities to realize your ambitions
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues who strive for the very best
• Progressive way of working according to the Agile method, so that new ideas come

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse, and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.