Team Lead - Backend

ING Hubs Philippines; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ING Hubs Philippines is seeking a Team Lead to manage a group of 6-10 engineers delivering high-quality software across multiple domains. You will coach, mentor, and recruit, align with product owners, and drive agile delivery while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

This role emphasizes hands-on coding and system reliability, with opportunities for growth in a dynamic global fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java 8+; Java 11+ preferred.
• Spring and Spring Boot experience.
• Git versioning knowledge.
• Test automation experience (JUnit, Mockito).
• RESTful API development experience.
• Effective communication skills.
• People and stakeholder management experience.

Responsibilities

• Direct manager for a team of 6-10 engineers across different technology skills.
• Set objectives and conduct Performance Evaluations; provide feedback and career planning.
• Identify training needs and collaborate with Principal Engineers to develop skills.
• Mentor and coach engineers.
• Recruitment (on/off boarding), hiring, and training of new talent.
• Ensure individuals and team align with company policies and compliance.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Independent thinking

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Ambiguity tolerance

Agile methodologies

Delivery leadership

Quality management

Metrics-driven

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Maven

JUnit

Job description

Job Description

At ING we value and support our employees before recruiting external talent.

ING Hubs Philippines (ING Hubs PH) is an international part of the ING organization delivering services to many Business Units across the world for both Wholesale Banking and Retail Banking activities. Working for ING Hubs PH means working with the most diverse workforce and where no challenge is the same.

At ING our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and business. We believe that sustainable progress is driven by people with the imagination and determination to make a better future for themselves and those around them.

ING is changing what banking is. For you, that means plenty of opportunities for personal growth in a continuously evolving environment.

Job Overview

A Team Lead manages a team of talented engineers to deliver high quality software solutions and services.

A Team Lead is responsible for teams of 10 to 12 engineers. They ensure all projects are delivered to the highest standard with outstanding stakeholder service. They ensure all team members are productive, achieving set goals and advancing technically.

Our Team Lead believe in servant-leadership. They empower their team, encourage growth, and embrace failure. They lead by example; understand strength comes in unity and leadership begins in the trenches.

Team Leads are expected to continue to write code, develop software, whether it be for tooling, for automation, code refactoring or for application development.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Capability Development

• Direct manager for a team of 6-10 engineers across different technology skills
• Setting team objectives and conducting Performance Evaluation. Provide regular performance feedback and conduct career planning with staff. Takes appropriate corrective action as needed to promote optimal employee performance.
• Identifying training needs of the team and individuals. Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Tech Leads to develop skills of staff and help advance their careers
• Mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Recruitment (on/off boarding), hiring, and training of new talent
• Ensures individuals and team align with company policies, training, compliance modules etc.

Delivery

• Support interactions with customers and development team to gather and define requirements
• Accountable for the delivery of high quality software solutions, services and the support of such solutions and applications (i.e. Build and Run).
• Ensure the team consistently ships high quality code
• Build strong partnerships with business, operations, infrastructure and other key stakeholder groups
• Analyze risks, issues and other data in supporting teams reaching actionable decisions.

Create and manage plans to mitigate risks for all projects in your Squad.

• Ensure the team focuses on removing bottlenecks, improving system performance, and optimizing reliability and maintainability
• Manage resource allocations and priorities effectively.
• Drive cross-team collaboration
• Partner with Product Owners and CJEs to own and plan the backlog and adapt to changes in priorities/requirements/velocity in an agile environment.
• Works with department management and operations team on planning, prioritization and resource allocation initiatives
• Maintains and manages team, customer, and vendor relationships that drive business results
• Provide regular reports to the Area Lead and other departments on your Squad’s achievements, challenges and recommended solutions.

Practice & Craftsmanship

• Work with Chapter Leads, Principal Engineers and other Tech Leads to ensure best practices are implemented and followed.
• Identify and implement appropriate continuous improvement opportunities
• Help improve our engineering tooling and practices

Key Capabilities/Experience

(3-5 bullet points)

• Excellent Stakeholder Management
• Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities
• Possesses strong management and leadership skills including, but not limited to, innovation, communication, ability to influence, strategic thinking and planning
• Strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and changing business priorities and new requirements
• Strong innovation, influencing, negotiating skills, and strategic agility
• Professional maturity and responsibility. A Squad Lead is expected to take ownership of issues and work with others to resolve them.
• Strong ability to help a team in all facets of the delivery cycle from analysis of requirements, design, development through implementation.
• In depth knowledge of industry standard best practices, development lifecycle processes and methodologies. Experience using agile methodology is a plus.
• Thorough understanding of quality management.
• Experienced in the use of metrics to drive decision making and process change.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, high productivity environment.
• Action-oriented, decisive approach to work required, with the willingness to take a hands- on role to ensure deliverables are met on time.
• Proven experience and expertise in delivering high quality enterprise applications.

Minimum Qualifications

Must Have

• Proficiency in Java 8 or higher, Java 11 or higher is preferred
• Competency in Spring and Spring boot
• Experience in code versioning tools, preferably Git
• Experience in Test Automation (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Working knowledge in RESTful API Development
• Effective Communication
• Experience in People & Stakeholder management

Good to Have

• Experience with database technologies such as SQL, JPA, Hibernate, etc.
• Working knowledge in Microservices Architecture, Containerization, and Orchestration
• Experience with CI/CD platforms, preferably Azure DevOps, and build tools such as

Maven

• An Agile mindset

Requirements