Senior Java Engineer

Discover ING Hubs Romania

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

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.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

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 Development team consists currently of 4 developers (3 engineers and one Front Office Quant) in Bucharest working directly with the algotrading team from London.

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 and discuss solutions directly with eTraders.
• Work in an agile environment, based on a lot of research, collaboration and "learn from failure" way of working, with highly impactful deliveries.
• Have a direct impact on the business improvements through developing and being part of the strategic deliveries.
• Provide hands-on support to colleagues when investigating production issues/outages.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: 5+ years of industry experience in IT (dev)
• Tech stack/ knowledge:
  • Essential:
    • Highly proficient development skills – core server-side Java, multi-threading
    • Strong design (patterns), algorithms and data structures knowledge
    • Experience with the entire software development life cycle.
    • Experience with building services from scratch and developing on top of existing components.
    • Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts. Interactions with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Maven
  • Nice to have:
    • Experience with messaging technologies and protocols.
    • Experience in optimising software for performance.
    • Banking/Financial Markets products/processes knowledge (FX Products, FIX protocol)
    • Flexibility in development technologies. Expected to work with different technologies and languages (KDB, Proprietary Software, Java, Python)
    • Experience with quant development, pricing algorithms or trading strategies.
• Personal Competencies:
  • Essential:
    • Hands-on mentality
    • Proactive behaviour and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance.
    • Ability to deliver without much supervision.
    • Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology.
    • Genuine team player
  • Nice to have:
    • Passion for mentoring junior colleagues.
    • Clear, concise and transparent communicator.
• Foreign languages: English (advanced spoken and written is a must)
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in, preferably, an IT related field

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