Scala Developer

Discovering ING

ING Bank is undertaking an aggressive digital transformation agenda, which builds on the success of the current mobile and online service offerings. We are investing in innovative ways to deepen customer engagement through the use of digital channels. The ambition is to position ING as one of the leaders in digital financial services and payments, and to deliver the highly personalized, real time experiences that customers increasingly expect.

Our Mission

We are looking for strong development experts with a passion for functional programming, who can help us set new standards with functional programming and reactive architectures using Scala and Akka, while building a next gen global payments processing system as a greenfield project using Lean Agile methodologies.

Our team is positioned well to disrupt towards the lean enterprise and prove that modern technologies and methodologies are feasible even for large organizations, while developing a solution that will sit at the core of payments processing in a multitude of countries, and we are looking for likeminded professionals who would take pride in such achievements, while enjoying a strong chance to become ING’s next thought leaders in the Reactive Architectures and Functional programming space on an international scale. 

Requirements

• Solid understanding of Scala or other functional programming languages. Java understanding also a plus.

• Solid understanding of functional programming & OOP concepts

• The strong foundational knowledge and ability to adapt to new technologies and paradigms that are often found in development experts are considered more important than most missing nice to haves in this list

• Experience working with the JVM, Maven, sbt is an obvious plus

• Experience building high throughput, low latency, real time, scalable & resilient systems

• Experience with Akka, Akka Streams, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure Devops, SQL Server, Kafka, Cassandra, Linux a big plus

• Experience working within Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment processes

• Understanding of the benefits of TDD/BDD & discipline towards these practices

• Good communication skills, awareness towards emotional intelligence factors and excellent ability to speak & write English

What We Offer

• Competitive Pay providing both options for full-time employment + benefits & bonus or contract based engagements

• 2+ days per week Work From Home;

• Highly flexible working hours; Choice of Mac or Windows based work laptops

• A modern & agile environment where you can grow while working on critical, high visibility projects within a 50 000+ people organization

• Opportunity to work with and receive training on relevant technologies & methodologies; Opportunities to help others grow

• The other usual IT perks: gym/transport/parking/ping pong type of stuff

Join our team and learn from experts including a former Haskell developer and FP champion: Vladimir Ciobanu and our Scala superstar: Alexandru Nedelcu