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.

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 ahead. In 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?

How to Succeed:

• A Bachelor’s (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 API’s Ecosystem
• Knowledgeable of SQL databases and DB queries, and file transfer. 
• Knowledgeable of controlling IT-Risk and Security Standards in the 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 the manual process by using Ansible
• Experience in Agile / Scrum or Kanban

Your personality

• A good communicator in English (verbal, written & presentation)
• Analytical (understanding complexity and thinking 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 the initiative
• You have a collaborative workstyle with a focus on achieving goals by helping others to be successful
• 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

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:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th-month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

•  An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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