Java Backend Developer – Employee Permissions for Wholesale Banking

About the Position

We are seeking a Java Backend Developer for a new Employee Permissions application in Wholesale Banking at ING Hubs Romania.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services for the new Employee Permissions application.
• Build new features from scratch and contribute to the technical foundation of a new strategic Wholesale Banking asset.
• Develop APIs and backend capabilities supporting team management, role management, data-scope permissions, and functional-scope permissions.
• Implement integrations with existing WB and bank-wide components.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions for granular access, hierarchical client access, assignment rules, exclusion rules, team governance, and document access.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, with a focus on quality, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Perform code reviews, write unit and integration tests, refactor code, and help reduce technical debt.
• Work closely with the Product Owner, CJE, Frontend Developer, DevOps Engineer, Chapter Lead, architects, and dependent squads.
• Align and discuss technical solutions directly with stakeholders and consuming applications.
• Support the squad during production investigations, incident analysis, and defect resolution.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies, refinements, demos, and discovery sessions.
• Help build a strong engineering culture based on ownership, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Core Skills

• Minimum 3 years of industry experience in Java backend development.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle: analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams.
• Strong development skills in core server-side Java.
• Experience with Spring Boot and Spring modules such as Web, Data, and Security, or similar dependency injection frameworks.
• Good understanding of REST APIs, API design, service boundaries, error handling, and versioning.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably Oracle, SQL, and relational modeling.
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery concepts and experience with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, and Maven.
• Familiarity with tools such as Confluence, Checkmarx, ServiceNow, or similar.
• Experience with automated testing using tools such as JUnit and/or BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Experience or strong affinity with IT Security concepts, including authentication, authorization, access control, auditability, and least privilege.
• Comfortable using Linux as a deployment environment.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand complex business domains.
• Proactive, hard-working, and ownership-driven mindset.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with both technical and business stakeholders.
• English: advanced spoken and written.

Nice to Have

• Experience with IAM, One Identity, Active Directory, RBAC / ABAC, data shielding, or entitlement-management systems.
• Experience with complex permission models, access rules, team-management solutions, or document permissions.
• Experience with messaging technologies and protocols.
• Experience in optimizing software for performance and scalability.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or cloud-native deployment.
• Flexibility in development technologies; openness to work with other languages such as Python or scripting when needed.
• Knowledge of Wholesale Banking, servicing, lending, sales, or KYC processes.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher, preferably in an IT-related field.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture

About the Company

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 provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.