Software Engineer - Simulation Toolkit

The 1ES Simulation Toolkit (SimKit) enables you to run, test, and debug your applications in a production-like ING Scalable Tech environment without requiring deployments. Whether you're developing locally or running in Kingsroad pipelines, SimKit provides the tools you need to ensure your application behaves as you expect and meets both functional and non-functional requirements.

The team
As Engineering & Reliability organization within ING, we aim to standardize, automate, and adopt robust engineering practices to ensure quality, reliability, security, and operational resilience while keeping up with the pace. System Engineering IT Area delivers opinionated integration patterns and Golden Paths by standardizing development, deployment, and integration of software components and interfaces (“APIs”) through pipelines, templates, and SDKs. Our products, such as API SDK, API Pipeline, Service Mesh, API Gateway, API Management, and AI for Engineering, are used by over 10,000 engineers worldwide and support 2,000+ microservices across almost all ING countries.

Roles and responsibilities
Contribute to development and adoption of 1ES Simulation Toolkit

• Build a platform to run and test distributed systems locally 

• Enable production-like testing without deployments 

• Improve developer experience and feedback loops 

• Work with containers, observability, and service ecosystems 

• Support end-to-end testing, stubbing and resilience validation 

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.

• Build and evolve the 1ES Simulation Toolkit to enable engineers to develop, test, and debug distributed systems locally with confidence.

• Deliver production-like simulation capabilities that help teams validate functional and non-functional requirements before deployment.

• Improve developer experience by reducing feedback cycles and making local and pipeline-based testing faster, simpler, and more reliable.

• Drive adoption of SimKit across engineering teams through high-quality tooling, clear documentation, and close collaboration with users.

• Strengthen platform reliability by enabling effective observability, resilience validation, service stubbing, and end-to-end testing scenarios.

• Collaborate with engineers across the organisation to continuously enhance the platform and support the needs of a large-scale microservices ecosystem.

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. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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