Chapter Lead Front-end Development | Customer Engagement & Lending @ING Bank in Bucuresti

Discover ING BankING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, “do your thing”. Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there’s a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for more than 25 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers’ lives and businesses.Currently, ING is the 4th bank in the local markets, based on the assets and is a universal bank with 1,6 million clients from three business segments: individual clients (Retail), SMEs and Mid-Corporate clients and Wholesale Banking.Join us!MissionThe Customer Engagement & Lending Area is looking for an enthusiastic Chapter Lead for our Front-End team - a tailor made role for passionate engineers proud of their craft, solution-focused and broadly developed. Keys to success: positive can-do mind-set and they live the Orange Code Behaviour. Besides a passion for IT, Chapter Leads have strong people management skills.The IT Chapter Lead:Is accountable to identify and fulfil IT knowledge gaps within the tribe ensuring that Tribes/Squads are qualitatively properly staffed.Stimulates the Chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills and the area of expertise as a whole.Encourages and stimulates employees to take responsibility for their own development and employability.Coaches individual Chapter members, both regarding expertise related skills and behavioural aspects.Propagates a culture that fits with the agile way of working and is a role modelDetermines, together with the Chapter members, the way of working in his/her IT Chapter and sets standards for the area of expertise.Your day to dayYou hierarchically oversee a chapter of 8 engineers, including ‘people management’. This covers the recruiting of new talents, administration, personal development, and evaluation of your Chapter members. You inspire and encourage your Chapter members to develop themselves, providing them coaching on both the professional as well as the personal level. This could be part of your personal development as well, if not fully familiar with it at this point in time in your professional career.In short, your key responsibilities are:Being an ambassador for cultural change and a role model in terms of the new Agile Way of Working: ensure continuous learning based on feedback, taking into account the different backgrounds of people across cultures and geographiesSharing passion and expert knowledge in your field of expertiseHighly proficient at helping the organization structure complex engineering issues, aware of different development methodologies, end-to-end testing, Identity and Access Management, IT Risk control, Infra provisioning, Change Management, CI/CDEncouraging and facilitating people in the Chapter to continuously develop themselves, both personally and within their area of expertise, so that they remain up-to-date in their field of expertise.What you bring to the teamYou are a driven and passionate IT engineer with an interest in people.You are ambitious with what you and your Chapter want to achieve.You stimulate your Chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills.You encourage and stimulate them to take responsibility for their own development and employability.You are a coach to individual Chapter members, both regarding Chapter related skills and behavioural aspects.You bring positive energy to the Tribe and have very good social and communication skills.You have proficiency in JavaScript (ECMAScript 2015+), HTML, CSS;Experience working Mobile First;Experience with Unidirectional-data-flow architectures (Redux pattern);Unit testing fan!, experience with Mocha/Jasmine;High curiosity and geek level.Nice to have:Good understanding of Agile methodologies;Web Components knowledge;Functional programming mindset;Test Driven Development;Optimization techniques and strategies;Native iOS/Android development;Knowledge in CI/CD pipelines, JavaScript tooling.