Chapter Lead Java Development

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ING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, "do your thing". Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there's a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.

To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for more than 25 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers' lives and businesses.

Currently, ING is the 4th bank in the local markets, based on the assets and is a universal bank with 1,6 million clients from three business segments: individual clients (Retail), SMEs and Mid-Corporate clients and Wholesale Banking.

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Mission

The Digital Tribe delivers the front as well as the backbone for the Home'Bank and stands at the technical forefront of what end-to-end digital retail banking entails.

Orchestrating such a colossus needs plenty of backend software engineering to concomitantly explore, experiment, expand, evolve, maintain, sunset and decommision modules that service functionality to Home'Bank. This tribe needs a new backend Chapter Lead to entrust with the beautiful and complex endeavor to scale Home'Bank's delivery and transform it into an antifragile distributed software system.

The IT Chapter Lead empowers the chapter to deliver high-quality work and advance technical expertise. They tackle delivery challenges, clear bottlenecks, review code, improve pipelines and design efficient processes. Using their software engineering experience, they clarify ambiguous problems and collaborate with product leads and architects to ensure scope and technical deliverables align with target architecture.

As independent managers, Chapter Leads guide the team members, set clear expectations, provide feedback and act as role models. Beyond management, they lead engineering efforts with conviction, shaping timelines, scope and risk to fulfill local and global technical roadmaps.

Your Day-to-Day

As a leader for a backend chapter & manager for its members

• be the main sponsor for the chapter towards the outer organization;

• develop knowledge and techniques specific to the chapter expertise;

• cater to the professional evolution of the chapter members;

• implement and curate the technical standards specific to the chapter expertise;

• represent and lobby for aligning to the target architecture (recommended by the platform architect); groom's the chapter's understanding of Home'Bank's architecture;

As a technical partner for the Product Owner

• steer, together with the chapter members, the technical approach in the squad implementations;

• share responsibility with the PO for serving the customer interests, particularly by ensuring that software development quality and standards are respected;

As a backend engineer contributing to Home'Bank

• clarify ambiguity in the technical solution;

• lead projects with high levels of technical orchestration such as: proofs of concept, changing build paradigms, performing major upgrades on the technical stack, evolutive delivery on multi-stage refactoring;

As a member of the tribe's engineering management team

• define, curate and advocate for technical standards in collaboration with other CLs of the backend guild;

• collaborate on cross-chapter IT topics, for example:

  • shifting left on secure software development;

  • calibrate on the expectations for engineers across the same seniority;

  • evolve the release, delivery and deployment process;

  • develop mechanisms for knowledge gain on your subjects of expertise;

What you bring to the team

• Strong engineering leadership and ability to manage diverse teams;

• A kind, altruistic, and vertical presence that shines through especially at times when you must have difficult conversations;

• Expertise in Java (8+), Spring, Spring Boot and microservices architecture;

• Proficiency in Kafka, RESTful API design and security engineering;

• Experience with performance and resilience patterns for distributed systems;

• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes;

• Ability to integrate modern microservices with legacy SOAP systems;

• Skilled in service contract management and backward compatibility;

• Familiarity with Git, Maven/Gradle and build automation tools;

• Capability to leverage AI tools for productivity and smarter engineering practices;

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun and collaborative environment;

• Open-concept offices designed for both team work and relaxation;

• Corporate events and social gatherings;

• Hybrid way of working with flexible working schedule and short week options;

• Monthly budget on Benefit platform;

• Extra annual leave days depending on the total length of working experience;

• Growth opportunities through upskilling/ reskilling programs and a variety of learning and development platforms: ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, as well as through trainings and certifications;

• Possibility to access Internal roles, International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments;

• Context to make an impact through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility projects.