We are seeking a Frontend Developer Advocate to join our dynamic team at ING. This role is perfect for someone with a background in frontend development, either as a developer advocate or with experience working within ING.
 

The team

Our team is a mix of developer advocates and topic experts. We are small and will stay so. We are 3 developer advocates (you, backend and DevOps) working on with a team of 3 topic experts for education, communication, project leading, community… to help ensure an optimal impact of our initiatives.

We have a strong backing of the organization (When was the last time you saw a corporation CTO join local Meetups?) but our area is new in an existing, large organization. This means you are comfortable with uncertainty and creating your own path.

Here’s how your typical week will look like:

First and foremost, we want you to be and stay part of the community. You spend 20 to 40% of your time engineering (this does not only mean coding).You choose the specific area you want to dive in, eg. testing / API / Typescript but you should know and feel the life of a developer at ING.The rest of the time, you take a bird’s eye view and find scalable ways to improve the general experience of developers and reduce friction. This may be by creatingawareness, training others, creating opportunities, advocating for tooling and more

Roles and responsibilities

Your main goal is to create opportunities for others. You are successful if you are making other successful.

You advocate for all frontend developers within ING, ensuring their needs andfeedback are heard and addressed. You help drive and are part of some of our communities of practice.You develop and deliver technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, and presentations, to engage and educate the developer community.You are welcome to represent ING at industry events, meetups, and conferences to promote our engineering culture and attract top talent, but this is not your primary role.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Proven experience as a developer advocate or frontend developer, preferably withinING. You either know the internal stack or have experience communicating with developers.We have no requirement for years of experience, but you need to have the credibility of a senior engineer.Strong technical background in frontend developmentPassion for community building and developer engagement.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at Benefits in the Netherlands  

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

 A salary tailored to your qualities and experience 24-27 vacation days depending on contractPension scheme13th month salaryIndividual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary8% Holiday paymentHybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creationPersonal growth and challenging work with endless possibilitiesAn informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About Engineering Culture

We double down on an engineering culture that strives to integrate state-of-art techcapabilities into customer value propositions that are real-time, hyper-personalized, andin. Our shared ambition is nothing less than putting ING at the forefront of appliedtechnological innovation and sustaining the development of future-fit products andservices for ING’s customers.Engineers collaborate with their business peers in finding the right problems to addressand to think out of the box in finding matching solutions. They cultivate theircraftmanship by seeking to understand what 'great' means and what the path to masteringgreatness is, and take pride in working towards that standard, day by day, inspiring otherson the way.

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement for more information. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button.

Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.