Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer

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About the role

  • Backend Engineer designing, developing, and maintaining backend applications using Spring Boot and Java for ING. Collaborating on architectural decisions and mentoring within an agile environment.

Responsibilities

  • You'll design, develop, and maintain reliable backend applications and services using modern frameworks like Spring Boot, Java and Kotlin
  • You contribute substantially to architectural decisions which ensure that our solutions are modular, scalable, and highly available as well as rock-solid and future-proof
  • You build and run RESTful APIs end to end, from database and messaging integration to SDKs and service-discovery tools that teams across ING can plug into effortlessly
  • You'll write automated tests, monitor and optimise applications using tools like Grafana and Kibana, and ensure resilience as well as high code quality
  • You'll set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate processes where you can and embrace modern tech – from cloud-native solutions to containerisation
  • You actively participate in ceremonies and help us drive continuous improvement.
  • You keep communication smoothly running – whether with external stakeholders or Product Owners in your team – and take your responsibilities one step further by providing mentorship and contributing to technical interviews

Requirements

  • Degree in economics, information systems or equivalent qualification
  • Long-standing practical experience in backend development, ideally in financial services or with large-scale platforms
  • Proven skills in Java (17 or higher, ideally 21+), Spring Boot, Oracle databases, SQL, and API management
  • Strong fundamentals in software development, OOP, design patterns, concurrency, and TDD as well as a deep understanding of microservice architectures and distributed systems
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Azure DevOps), test automation (JUnit, Mockito), and Git
  • Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor others
  • Skills in IT risk management, secure development practices, Containerisation (OpenShift), orchestration, and Kafka as well as with monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana); cloud technologies and agile frameworks are a bonus
  • Excellent problem-solving, communicative and stakeholder management skills
  • Strong agile and collaborative mindset as well as the ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor others
  • A passion for innovation and a feel for sustainable solutions
  • Fluency in English, knowledge of German is a plus

Benefits

  • Company pension plan
  • capital-building offers
  • free Deutschlandticket & bicycle leasING
  • company restaurant
  • Hybrid working: In addition to working in the office, you can also work remotely – within operational, regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Individualized work schedule models
  • sabbatical
  • subsidization of nursing & childcare costs
  • Personal budget for continuing education and development as well as health
  • plus, a personal budget to set up your mobile working space

Job title

Senior Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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