Senior JavaScript Engineer - OpenFin Platform Squad @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 our office in Bucharest. 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?

Here's a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

• At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The mission

We are looking for a proactive senior engineer with a focus of 80% frontend and 20% backend. Our stakeholders are part of the Operational tribe in the financial sector, who often face challenges such as fragmented systems and inefficient workflows in the current way of working.

The OpenFin Platform application solves these problems by providing a unified desktop experience based on the cutting-edge OpenFin framework and the FDC3 protocol standards, enabling interoperability between web applications that typically do not communicate with each other. It is a Desktop application that integrates a Chromium browser where different Web Applications from inside ING can communicate seamlessly.

We expect you to be responsible and take ownership together with your colleagues in Bucharest and stakeholders from across the continent. Be open, honest, proactive, and communicate clearly and, most importantly, be a team-player that drives the team forward.

Your day to day:

Even if you'll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office's garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• Contribute to the OpenFin Platform on the frontend and backend journey using JavaScript, TypeScript & Lit.
• Collaborate with the colleagues to ensure that code is of high quality, maintainable and meets business needs.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure that all code meets standards.
• Collaborate with your team members on the long-term strategy for the team and the portal application; continuously improve the user experience while also reducing the time-to-market
• Help your colleagues where needed and be there for them, as they will be for you

What you'll bring to the team:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• +4 years of experience as a Front-End Engineer or Full-Stack Engineer
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Experience with the Node environment (or desire to learn Node quickly)
• Experience with front-end development frameworks (e.g. Lit, Angular, React, Vue.js)
• Experience with testing technologies and tools like Karma, Cucumber, WebdriverIO, Chai etc.
• Experience with building tools such as Webpack, Rollup, Vite etc.
• Experience with package managers such as NPM
• Proficiency with Git and version control systems
• Excellent communication skills
• Being a team-player that drives forward not only the project, but also their other colleagues.
• (Ideally) Experience with Web Components
• (Ideally) Strong experience with Node.JS
• (Ideally) Good understanding of browsers' native Web APIs especially Websockets, Web Workers and Web Storage APIs

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