Java Chapter Lead - PSS @ ING Hubs RO

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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 1600 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:

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The Mission

You will focus predominantly on the extension of the payment routing engine to support multiple European ING entities. This clustered application is written using java 11 and the reactive streams approach. 

You will work in the dynamic and challenging environment of wholesale banking technology (WB Tech) in Tribe Payments. We operate according to a Scrum development process with two-week sprints and strongly believe in the DevOps approach to delivering IT solutions. We strive to have the high-quality mission-critical software delivered in time using iterative development with regular milestone reviews with stakeholders following the ING's agile way of working to reduce surprises in what we build.

Your day to day

From a managerial / people leader point of view, you will:

• Grow the team and perform recruitment interviews (technical and/or HR related). You work closely with the recruitment team to attract, onboard and retain top talent
• Define objectives and conduct yearly performance evaluations
• Recognize team and individual members’ efforts and successes
• Provide continuous feedback for team members (regular 1:1s)
• Coach and mentor the team members (be available for them and genuinely care about their aspirations)
• Help the team members grow in their career path (identify opportunities within the project and learning needs). You help your team develop through coaching, mentoring and constant feedback. Chapter craftsmanship is a key component in your role.
• Motivate the team, be an inspiration for them and act as a role model
• Remove impediments that obstruct the team in pursuing their goals. You take ownership of issues, improvements and new functionality
• Think strategically in terms of overall chapter opportunities and contexts for growth (functional knowledge, technical knowledge, ownership for the delivery, autonomy in the wider Tribe context, etc)
• Collaborate closely with the other Chapter Leads and IT Area Leads to improve the maturity of the processes and practices and to facilitate the knowledge sharing across teams

What you’ll bring to the team

• Mandatory: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics
• Demonstrable experience producing reusable code components
• 7+ years of software engineering experience on Java, Spring Boot, Restful API and supporting libraries
• Understanding the clustering technologies and issues, such as Akka clusters and Cassandra clusters
• Understand how the distributed systems work (i.e., you have the ability to explain the CAP theorem and Two Generals problem)
• Experience with containers (Docker, docker-compose, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of messaging platforms (i.e., Kafka, EMS, ActiveMQ and/or IBM MQ)
• You think of security and failure during the design stage
• Security by design
• Experience with XML processing and validation
• Understanding NoSQL data modelling (i.e., Cassandra)
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Experience in the financial industry, preferably payments
• Passion for the reactive programming
• Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines (i.e., Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Open-Source contributions / active GitHub profile
• Experience with Akka (Java), Akka-streams (Java), reactive spring and/or other reactive frameworks
• Familiarity with functional programming
• Experience on Scala or Kotlin