Front-End Engineer

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 You will be part of a squad: a self-managing, autonomous unit with end-to-end responsibility for a customer journey, e.g. the online scheduling of an appointment with a mortgage advisor, or interest rate adjustments and mortgage repayment. You will be involved in the whole development lifecycle, from refining user stories until monitoring software in production, where your main focus will be coding. Roles and responsibilities The following responsibilities will be part of your role at ING:

• 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 (e.g. during peer reviews)
• 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. Ability to transfer this knowledge back to ING

Our stack Our back-end APIs are created with an internal Spring (Boot) based framework and run on virtualized hardware. The front-end is built in Web Components utilising lit-html. To comply with our regulators demands, our releases processes can feel bureaucratic from time to time. This means that you need to be a quick learner to understand them, and you need to have the ambition to improve and automate as much as possible.

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field
• 4 years or more of software engineering experience, preferably in creating highly scalable, secure and high-performance applications
• Experience in developing Front end applications with JavaScript (ES5/ES6), HTML and CSS (Experience with latest version as well).
• Good knowledge of front end frameworks and working experience in developing Web components using one or more frameworks of Angular, ReactJS, VueJS, Polymer and/or Lit-HTML/Lit-Element
• Experience with setting up your own pipeline configuration
• Knowledge of test driven development and test automation
• Knowledge of JSON, REST, web-services, microservice architecture.
• Familiar with continuous integration tools such as: GIT, Azure, Yarn, NPM (and are able to configure these tools)
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience in Agile / Scrum or Kanban, Furthermore, you have great analytical skills and conceptual understanding. You are able to quickly understand new technical concepts and technology and you have a strong interest in, and vision on, the latest trends in software development and technology. You have strong communication skills that enable you to explain complex technical concepts to non-techies. Your English in speaking and writing is fluent and you are a team player who likes to join the social events of the squad and ING organisation.

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. 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

We at ING Mortgages NL are looking for a Front-End Engineer to help us create an excellent interface for our users. Utilising Web Components, some key principles for our IT department is Customer experience, security and DRY principles. We utilise Team Topologies to efficient work together with our many squads, following a variation of the Spotify model with chapters and full-stack devops squads. ING is 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.