Front End Engineer en Madrid

ING wants to be an innovative bank, so we need people who are real innovators. Because within ING our people are the engine for ING´s growth and success.

The international project Model Bank is multi-cultural and cross-business, and is developing a borderless, scalable, retail platform uniting Spain, Italy, France, Czech Republic and Austria.

We offer the position Front End Engineer within the IT department for the Model Bank project in Madrid. 

Model Bank in collaboration with the MB countries (Spain, Italy, France and Czech Republic) aims to deliver:

• A  retail harmonized digital platform (with 60% to 90% harmonisation), fully focused on supporting the MB countries in increasing customer interaction, improving customer satisfaction and increasing sales

• A scalable platform which can be extended to on-board additional countries, products and services in future;

• An agile, central IT shared service centre that can develop, maintain and run digital requirements going forward

• A high level of standardization and centralization across systems, processes, data and way of working aligned with Enterprise Architecture, Global Process Management, Global Data Management and Bank Infra

Organizational context

The overall Agile organization is using the following principles: Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Comunity of Expertise.

In a Squad, the members (from 5 to 9) all sit together to design, develop, test, and release to production a valuable software. In the Squad, the Product Owner priorities the work.

The Tribe is a collection of Squads (limited to 100 people) that work in related areas.

The Chapter is a transversal regroupment by similar skills or general competency area. The Chapter Lead is responsible for developing people & setting salaries but remain part of Squad & does day to day work.

The Community of Expertise is a group of people that want to share knowledge, tools, code, and practices.

The Front End Engineer is a member of a Squad - itself in a Tribe - , and Chapter. Depending on the need and profile, he/she can also be part of a Community of Expertise.

Job Description

As a Member of the Squad, the Front End Software Engineer contribute to all type of tasks of the team such as Analyse, Design, Code, Test, Build, Release and Support.

The day to day work is done the Agile way following Scrum, Kanban, XP or any other good best practices.

As part of the Squad the objective of the Software Engineer Front End, is:

• To deliver in Production a working software. It includes the documentation and parameters that can help reaching that goal.

• To support Production by analysis and fixing any bugs that occurs.

As Front End Expert, he/she specifically add value on that technical layer but always keep in mind the rest of the technical stack as part of the Squad responsibilities, as part of its responsibilities.

Major responsibility areas

Stories Refinement

Refine the User Stories and Tasks into SubTasks doable in less that 2 days by Squad member.

Refine the Accceptance Criteria

Coding

Code with the following criteria:

• Good design

• Good quality

• Security (by design)

Test

Met the Accceptance criteria with as much test automation as possible

Respect Maker / Checker Principle

Backlog Management

The Backlog is the Product Owner Reponsibility, but any team member can help him/her:

• On backlog grooming

• Preparing demo

• Understanding importance of technical tasks/ refactoring

Release

Generate working software release

Major challenges

Work in a moving context.

Having simple and innovative solutions to overcome problems.

Learn and Share both functional and Technical knowledge.

Collectively share responsibility in decisions and implementation of Squad objectives.

Capabilities required

Essential

• Analysis capabilities

• Testing abilities

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Good coding Skills on all Front End Layer: Javascript/html/css, with working experience on recent javascript framework

• Back End or/and Middleware awareness (understand the global architecture)

• 5 years of experience on similar technical stack

Desirable

• Agile team experience with SCRUM or Kanban or XP

• Retal banking knowledge

• Testing framework

• BackBoneJS

• Marionette

• Polymer

• Java

If you are interested in this position, you can send your resume to itziar.urcelay.perez@ing.com