Chapter Lead Engineer

• REQ
• 13/11/2025
• IT Engineering
• Boekarest, Roemenië
• ING Hubs

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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 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING's software development hub, then steadily epanded 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 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services.

We enjoy a fleible 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

You will be the Chapter Lead for engineers from mobile card enrollment squads. The squads will develop and enhance platforms for our essential IT assets, offering comprehensive Digitized Card Management capabilities. These platforms will support enrollment and lifecycle management activities for both debit and credit cards, various wallets such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, Click to Pay etc, for different ING entities. The chapter consists of engineers with epertise both in development as well as operations.

Your day to day

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

• Ensure the individual development and craftmanship of your team members, so that they can successfully fulfill their roles;
• Stimulate a continuous delivery culture in terms of services and working conditions;
• Hands-on technical activity as member of your Squad where you provide the automation, tooling, resilience, and security necessary for smooth feature delivery by your Squad;
• Work together with your Squad to help them maintain a secure, highly available, and compliant infrastructure;
• Take responsibility for the applications on Development, Test as well as Acceptance and Production environments. You automate relentlessly: Testing (Functional, Performance, Security), Deployments, and Operations (Data Center failover, Backups/Restore, Security);
• Coordinate infrastructure related operations, Incident & Change Management with SRE;
  Make sure that your chapter is able to handle une- pected situations (colleagues leaving the company, organizational changes, major incidents on our applications, etc.);
• Coordinate the Risk related activities with focus on reusability (some parts of it can be shared by multiple teams);
• As part of a cross-border (Amsterdam, Bucharest) Squad you work in an Agile/Scrum way, on the backlog prioritized by a Product Owner;
• You help your team 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: 1 to 1 meetings with your team members, performance management, etc;
• You work with the recruitment team to attract, onboard and retain top talent.

What you'll bring to the team

Able to help with a diverse ecosystem: back-end with Spring/Spring Boot and Java 17, dockerized development, production metrics, sound knowledge on security protocols.

The Team will have eisting applications in portfolio as well as fresh developments.

• A University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics or equivalent;
  7+ years of Java software engineering e- perience;
  E- perience with the Spring/Spring MVC/Spring Boot, REST APIs design and implementation;
• Great analytical skills and conceptual / architectural understanding, ability to quickly understand new technical concepts that are outside of your comfort zone;
• Strong interest and vision in recent trends in software development and technology in general;
• Previous coordination role;
  E- perience with coaching and motivating team members;
• Advanced knowledge of Java 17 or higher;
  E- perience in developing automated testing;
• Familiarity with tools like Confluence, Git, Jenkins, Maven;
  E- perience or affinity with IT Security concepts;
• Good written and verbal English skills;
• Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and willingness to share knowledge with others;
• E2E product delivery previous involvement.

What would be a plus:

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• perience;
  E- perience with Kubernetes, Docker, Open Shift;
  Working e- perience in Azure Cloud;
• Frontend development skills (javascript, web components).

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ING Recruitment team

Bij ING willen we het beste uit mensen halen. Daarom hebben we een inclusieve cultuur waarin iedereen de kans krijgt om te groeien en een verschil te maken voor onze klanten en de samenleving. Diversiteit, gelijkheid en inclusie staan bij ons altijd voorop. We behan iedereen eerlijk, ongeacht leeftijd, geslacht, genderidentiteit, culturele achtergrond, ervaring, geloof, ras, etniciteit, beperking, gezinssituatie, seksuele geaardheid, sociale afkomst of wat dan ook. Heb je hulp nodig of kunnen we iets voor je doen tijdens je sollicitatie of gesprek? Neem dan contact op met de recruiter die bij de vacature vermeld staat. We werken graag samen met jou om het proces eerlijk en toegankelijk te maken. Lees hier meer over hoe wij staan voor diversiteit, inclusie en erbij horen.