Front-End Developer

We at ING are looking for a competent Front-End Engineer to help us to further develop the ING inbox interface to optimally support our customers in reading and handling their Inbox messages. Utilizing Web Components, a key principles for our IT department is Customer experience. We utilize Team Topologies to efficient work together with the different squads within ING, following a variation of the Spotify model with chapters and full-stack DevOps squads.
ING is transforming rapidly towards a top-notch IT company with a Software Craftsmanship culture. We are end-to-end agile, work in multidisciplinary teams and use cutting edge technology. This enables us to offer our customers the best possible service and respond to rapidly changing customer demands.

Your work environment 
Within Corporate Technology, Content Delivery is responsible for the development and maintenance of applications regarding document composition, digital communication (Inbox, SMS, email) and print management. We are constantly building on the state-of-the-art Customer Communication experience to enable our strategic ambitions. A challenging mission based on technologies where Linux, Java, .NET and a diversity of COTS products are needed to deliver an integrated customer solution.

Your role
In this role as Front-End Engineer you will be part of the Obelix squad. This squad is a self-managing, autonomous unit with end-to-end responsibility for the customer journey of the Inbox platform. You will be involved in the whole development lifecycle, from refining user stories until monitoring software in production, where your main focus will be front-end coding. The squad consists of 6-7 engineers (both front-end and back-end) and 2 CJE (Customer Journey Experts). The squad-members are partly located in the Netherlands (Leeuwarden) and partly located offshore in India. 

Your personality
•    You are open, you give and accept direct feedback
•    You have a focus on quality and challenge your colleagues (e.g. during peer reviews)
•    You speak up and challenge decisions (you ask why things are done instead of just doing them)
•    You have a strong interest and vision in recent trends in software development and technology in general. Ability to transfer this knowledge back to ING

Our stack
The front-end is built in Web Components utilizing lit-html. To comply with our regulators demands, our releases processes can feel bureaucratic from time to time. This means that you need to be a quick learner to understand them, and you need to have the ambition to improve and automate as much as possible. Our back-end APIs are created with an internal Spring (Boot) based framework and run in containers.

Your skills
•    A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field
•    Software engineering experience, preferably in creating highly scalable, secure and high-performance applications
•    Experience in developing Front end applications with JavaScript (ES5/ES6), HTML and CSS
•    Knowledge of front end frameworks and working experience in developing Web components using one or more frameworks of Angular, ReactJS, VueJS, Polymer and/or Lit-HTML/Lit-Element
•    Experience with setting up your own pipeline configuration
•    Knowledge of test driven development and test automation
•    Knowledge of JSON, REST, web-services, microservice architecture.
•    Familiar with continuous integration tools such as: GIT, Azure DevOps
•    Strong communication skills.
•    Experience in Agile / Scrum or Kanban

Furthermore, you have great analytical skills and conceptual understanding. You are able to quickly understand new technical concepts and technology and you have a strong interest in, and vision on, the latest trends in software development and technology. You have strong communication skills that enable you to explain complex technical concepts to non-techies. Your English in speaking and writing is fluent and you are a team player who likes to join the social events of the squad and ING organization. 

We offer
A full-time position (36h per week) in a highly challenging environment with bleeding edge technology and concepts, modern agile international organisation and really nice colleagues. And the best place to grow your technical capabilities and personal competences.
The benefits of working with us at ING includes:
•    A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
•    13th month salary
•    Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
•    8% Holiday payment
•    Pension scheme
•    Flexible leave
•    Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
•    An informal working environment with innovative colleagues
•    Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster
•    Public transport card (NS Business Card)

About us
With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING.