Senior Software Engineer @ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING's software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission
As Service Mesh engineer you will work in a squad with 11 other engineers that have similar skills as you. Together you develop and support the internally developed service mesh solution using Envoy, a proxy that takes care of observability, resiliency and security in our service mesh. The service mesh is used globally and its userbase is global as well. It is being used by 800+ teams and 2000+ microservices. And you make sure that all teams and applications reach the Golden State by promoting the microservices golden path and correct usage of the service mesh!

You make customers successful, by helping users to tackle issues related to our product. All squad members take part in this technical support towards users.

Your day to day

Even if you'll start your day from the comfort of your home or enjoy your morning coffee in the office garden, your day will follow a similar rhythm. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• Join Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups) to align on progress, priorities, and blockers
• Collaborate with teammates through pair programming on user stories
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to maintain code quality
• Take ownership of user stories from implementation to delivery
• Contribute to internal initiatives, such as preparing talks or sharing knowledge to promote platform adoption
• Support other teams integrating with the platform, guiding them through setup and troubleshooting issues
• Continuously improve documentation to make solutions reusable and accessible
• Identify gaps or improvement areas (e.g., outdated versions, missing automation) and contribute them to the backlog
• Help enhance developer experience and platform usability through feedback and incremental improvements
• Actively contribute to strengthening the engineering ecosystem and collaboration across teams

What you'll bring to the team

• 10+ years experience as a Software Engineer
• DevOps as Cloud-minded Engineer
• Go or similar systems language. Other examples are: Go, Rust, Java, or C-family languages
• A polyglot mindset and eagerness to learn new languages and technologies
• GCP, AKS or Kubernetes experience
• Experience with Envoy proxy is important, and contributions to OSS Envoy is a plus. Alternatively Nginx experience is also desirable.

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