Java Chapter Lead – Senior Full Stack Dev Engineer in Amsterdam

ING is looking for a Chapter Lead (OPS and Java)– for developing and maintaining the wholesale banking’s reporting functionalities building towards the best digital experience to ING’s biggest clients. Think forward! Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We are one of the most innovative banks with a strong established brand that operates worldwide with a clear omnichannel distribution strategy and international network.

You will work together with a team consisting of many cultures and in different time zones, all of them connected to the same goal. The team takes end to end ownership and responsibility, it contributes in an agile way to the full lifecycle of an application, from requirements phase to implementation and to running in production. We work in a fun and creative environment where we enable everyone to perform at its best. Trust is essential: we respect each other’s opinion and we are not afraid to speak out loud whenever it is required.

Who you are

• You love to inspire other people to grow

• You are a motivated engineer who likes to work in a team on complex solutions.

• Although you are an experienced engineer, you continuously want to grow your personal skills as an engineer and as a leader.

• Keep doing things smarter is in your DNA; ‘Automate… Everything!’

• You have a mentality that aligns with our culture where you ‘Take it on and make it happen’. You naturally behave towards our values and you take the banker's oath, like all ING employees.

• In your mindset it is stability above all. Besides development, operations activities come natural for you.

• You take ownership, and you enable others to take ownership.

• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in leading and coaching fellow engineers in a hierarchical or project role.

• Fluent communication skills in English.

• 5+ year’s experience in Agile development (SCRUM, Kanban)

• A team player mindset, but with leadership qualities

• 5+ years of engineering and maintenance experience.

What you'll do

• As an energetic Chapter Lead with expertise in people management, you are an engineer and this will be your role in the squad for 60% of your time. With your fellow squad member, you develop and deliver features to production.

• The remaining 40% you spend on building up expertise in your chapter and developing your chapter members. You are enthusiastic about transferring your knowledge to others, and about coaching members of your Chapter and overseeing their personal development.

• You help your chapter develop through coaching, mentoring and constant feedback

• Together with your IT Area Lead, you set targets for each team member

• You are responsible for HR-related activities: For instance 1 to 1 meetings with your team members, performance management.

• You work with the recruitment team to attract, onboard and retain top talent.

• Stakeholder management: work with stakeholders from different squads to understand and be able to help the team set-up their individual KPI’s and determine the way of working for the chapter;

How to succeed

• Master of Science in Computer Science or an equivalent field

• Knowledge of data and data flows

• Willingness to learn and maintain the current system (non-java)

• Willingness to run standby on rotational basis.

• Excellent knowledge of Java8+ including Spring framework 4.x/5.x and Spring Boot 2.x

• API knowledge is a plus, preferably in creating high scalability mission-critical applications

• Knowledge of EMS/JMS/Kafka/Unix/Linux.

• Understanding of container-based platforms and tooling including Docker. Familiarity with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift is a plus

• A TDD & Automated testing mindset with experience in Cucumber (or similar like Karate, Serenity) Testing is an integral partof DoD and not a seperate activity

• Good understanding of DevOps practices including Git, CI/CD, test automation and monitoring…..and Azure

• You are able to develop an efficient and maintainable code with the right balance between solving the problem at hand and not over-engineering your solution.

• You keep yourself up to date with the latest trends and like to try everything out and experiment.   

• Good understanding of relational databases (Oracle). Familiarity with NoSQL datastores is a big plus

• Experience leading chapters or teams developing highly concurrent and reliable distributed systems is a plus

• Fluent in written and spoken English

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life and reward our people with a generous benefits offer and employment conditions. 

Questions?

Contact Sergio Koosman in our Tech recruitment team +31613845451 /   or Friso de Jonge for more information about this role. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button.