Ph3Overview /h3 pbDiscover ING Hubs Romania /b /p pING 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 bover 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. /b /p pWe 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 boperate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca /b. /p pbOur tech capabilities remain the core of our business /b, 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. /p pWe enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. /p pFor us, impact isn\u2019t a perk. It\u2019s 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? /p h3The mission /h3 pThe API Gateway team builds and operates ING\'s enterprise API Gateway — a bank-wide, solution that serves as the central entry point for all customer, employee, and third-party facing traffic across ING\'s global estate. The platform handles inbound and outbound routing, authentication, load balancing, TLS termination, domain circuit-breaking, and front-end hosting for dozens of ING units worldwide. This is critical infrastructure: every digital interaction with ING — mobile banking, web applications, third-party integrations, and internal tools — flows through the API Gateway. /p h3Your Day-to-Day /h3 pAs a Senior Software Engineer on the API Gateway team you will: /p ul libDesign, build, and maintain /bthe gateway platform components — including configuration controllers, domain circuit breakers, and routing services — that power ING\'s inbound and outbound API traffic across internet and intranet facing domains; /li libDevelop and extend /bNGINX-based gateway configurations and custom modules to support Touchpoint API Gateway, Integration Gateway, Outbound Gateway, and front-end hosting use cases; /li libAutomate operations /bby building tooling around the automation framework for resource management, configuration deployment, and release train orchestration (production deploys twice per week); /li libEnsure reliability and availability /bof a globally critical service, implementing resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, canary deployments, and DDoS mitigation across multiple data centers; /li libCollaborate across squads /bwith platform engineers, SREs, security teams, and consuming product teams to onboard new domains, troubleshoot issues, and define gateway standards; /li libHandle incident management /bincluding P1/P2 priority incidents, emergency production changes, and post mortem analysis; /li libContribute to the CI/CD pipeline /b, ensuring automated testing, configuration validation, and safe rollout of changes across dev, test, acceptance and production environments. /li /ul h3Technology Stack /h3 ul libLanguages: /b Java, Python, Bash, Rego; /li libInfrastructure: /b ING Private Cloud, OpenShift, Linux; /li libConfiguration Orchestration: /b Automation Framework, Azure DevOps CI/CD; /li libObservability: /b Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack; /li libSecurity: /b OAuth 2.0, JWT, ING Authentication solution, Zero Trust principles. /li /ul h3What You'll Bring to the Team /h3 pbRequired /b /p ul lib5+ years /b of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record in building and operating distributed systems or platform/infrastructure products; /li liProficiency inb Java /b. Experience withb Go, Python, C, Bash /b is a plus. /li liFamiliarity withb containerisation and orchestration /b (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines; /li liKnowledge ofb NGINX /b (configuration, modules, reverse proxy patterns) or comparable API gateway / proxy technologies (e.g., Envoy, HAProxy, Kong); /li liGood understanding ofb networking fundamentals /b: HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/mTLS, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and DMZ architectures; /li liStrong debugging and incident response skills — comfortable operating under pressure during P1/P2 incidents; /li liExcellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work effectively in a cross-functional, globally distributed team. /li /ul h3Preferred /h3 ul liExperience building or operatingb API gateways at scale /b in a large enterprise or financial services environment; /li liKnowledge of authentication authorisation protocols:b OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SAML /b; /li liFamiliarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) and SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, on-call); /li liExperience withb high-availability and disaster recovery /b patterns across multi-data center setups. /li /ul pIf you want to deep dive into the processing of personal data conducted by ING Hubs Romania during the recruitment process and your rights related to it, read the bprivacy notices /b on our website (make sure to scroll until you reach the Data Protection section/ Candidates tab). /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr