Java Engineer API Platform (Backend)

We at ING Retail Banking are looking for a mid-senior/senior backend Engineer to strengthen one of our multidisciplinary teams that delivers complex customer propositions for its customers.

It is our mission to create and maintain a frictionless API layer for ING Mobile and Web Backends. To integrate our platform (mobile and web) with the ING core financial services and to provide secure and high performing APIs.

The team

As Search & Intelligent Assistant team, we are seeking a talented and experienced Global Search Solutions Engineer. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining our global search solutions, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance across multiple countries. Our search solutions utilize cutting-edge technologies such as Elastic Search, Kafka, Generative AI, and Java backend for our APIs. All with the aim to help the millions of ING customers globally to find what they are looking for and to answer their questions, even those they hadn’t thought of yet.

Role & responsibilities

• API Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs and components to support the Mobile and Web API landscape.
• Integration: Ensure seamless integration of APIs with NGINX, firewalls, external domains, and monitoring and alerting setups.
• DevOps Collaboration: Work closely with DevOps engineers to implement and optimize API integrations, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Azure DevOps Pipeline: Develop and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines to automate the deployment and management of APIs.
• Elastic Search: Work with Elastic Search to consume and index data, ensuring efficient search capabilities.
• Kafka Integration: Utilize Kafka to feed data into Elastic Search, ensuring real-time data processing and indexing.
• Agile Scrum Process: Participate in Agile Scrum development processes, contributing to iterative development and continuous delivery of high-quality software.
• Continuous Delivery: Deliver working software to production every two weeks, maximizing customer satisfaction and impact through regular feedback loops.
• OPS Skills: Utilize OPS skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to API functionality, performance, and security.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the reliability and performance of APIs.

How to succeed

• 8+ years of professional java experience (design, develop and maintain highly available and resilient applications)
• Experience with java 11+, Git and Maven
• Experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA/JDBC
• Knowledge of Azure - CI/CD pipeline is also important as we are migrating to cloud based solution. CI/CD solution is Azure already.
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing
• Experience with monitoring and alerting (Prometheus/Grafana), Elastic search
• Experience with containers (Docker, K8S or OpenShift)
• Basic Linux commands and bash scripting
• Basic knowledge of relational database i.e. Oracle (nice to have)
• We are looking for engineers that next to their coding skills have the ability to align requirements with dev engineers from the (frontend platform team) and is capable of acting as a application architect.
• Willing to get your feet in the mud if it comes to ops work like (External connection designs, NGINX request, Firewalls opening request and Risk management). 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

What technology expertise are we looking for?

• Java 11+, Spring, Cassandra, Oracle, Kafka, Linux
• Test Driven Development, Design Patterns, Object Oriented and Functional Programming

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues