Chapter lead - API development

Are you up for developing complex systems at scale in one of the biggest players in the Dutch Mortgages market

At ING Mortgages NL we are looking for a Chapterlead API Engineer to help us realize our digitalization vision as well as grow our engineers in their expertise on the state of the art backend development.

About ING Netherlands

Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We are an industry recognized strong brand with positive recognition from customers in many countries strong financial position Omni-channel distribution strategy and international network.

We are transforming rapidly towards a top-notch IT company with a Software Craftsmanship culture incorporating FinTech start-up mentality and financial innovation. 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.

Mortgages

A mortgage is one of the most important financial decisions in the life of our customers. Our purpose: we offer customers financial and emotional stability when purchasing their dream house and offer a carefree living afterwards. We provide them with excellent advice and exceed customers and intermediary expectations.

The team

The people in your chapter are equally ambitious as you and you like to transfer your expertise to them and feel satisfaction from coaching (both professionally as personally) your colleagues. You are ambitious with what you and your chapter want to achieve. You stimulate your chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills. You speak up and challenge the status quo. Next to this you are also part of the leadership team of the Area which means you co-create the area vision and effectively resource the tribe and squads.

Roles and responsibilities

We are looking for you to help others to be successful and always be a step other words you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast-changing and complex environment. You are an energetic Chapter Lead with expertise in engineering people management and affinity with supporting critical applications and with that make a large impact. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions. Does this sound interesting

Your personality

• a good communicator in English (verbal written & presentation)
• passionate about technology
• able to quickly learn new skills and concepts
• analytical (understanding complexityand think from the impact point of view not just solving the problem directly)
• not waiting for others to tell you what to do but just take initiative
• You have a collaborative workstyle with focus on achieving goals by helping others to be successful
• You coach and help the team to the next level
• You are open you give and accept direct feedback
• You have a focus on quality and challenge your colleagues to grow
• 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 and the ability to transfer this knowledge back to ING

Your skills

• A Bachelors (HBO) degree in computer science or a relevant field.
• 10 years or more of engineering experience in the Java microservices Ecosystem
• Working on continuous improvements on business applications and infrastructure as well as on monitoring & alerting in the REST APIs Ecosystem
• Knowledgeable of SQL databases and DB queries andfile transfer.
• Knowledgeable of controlling IT-Risk and Security Standardsin banking industry.
• Identifying diagnosing troubleshooting and resolving production issues by using a range of monitoring test and alerting tools (Configuration change incident and problem Management)
• Build & deployment processes (Azure DevOps)
• Being able to automate and execute test cases
• Automating manual process by using Ansible
• Experience in Agile / Scrum or Kanban

We offer

A full-time position (36/40h 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. You will receive a scale 11 or 12 salary based on your profile and experience.

The benefits of working with us at ING includes:

• An attractive salary
• 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 60000 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 whats possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customers 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.

Join us. Apply today.