bank99 is a Austrian retail bank launched in 2020 as a joint venture between Österreichische Post AG (90%) and Schelhammer Capital Bank AG (10%), operating as both a digital bank and physical network across 1,700 Post office locations. The tech stack is compliance-heavy (Java, RPA, SQL, REST Assured, Playwright) with active investment in AML automation, transaction monitoring, and risk framework development — a pattern typical of post-acquisition integration (they inherited 300K customers from ING Austria's retail book in 2021). Hiring is sales-led, with anti-money-laundering and regulatory automation consuming most engineering effort.
Notable leadership hires: IT Automation Lead
bank99 serves Austrian retail customers with deposit accounts, payments, consumer credit, wealth management, mortgages, and insurance via dual-channel distribution: a digital platform and a physical footprint of 1,700 Post branch locations. The bank operates under joint ownership (Austrian Post majority stake), with approximately 350 employees managing close to 300,000 customers. The organizational structure reflects a compliance-first maturity: active development pipelines for AML policy automation, suspicious-activity detection, ICAAP/ILAAP stress testing, and risk reporting frameworks suggest ongoing regulatory alignment and operational integration from the 2021 ING Austria acquisition.
Java, SQL, Microsoft Office, R, and Windows for core systems. Testing and automation via Playwright, REST Assured, Maven, Jira, and RPA. Virtualization on VMware and Hyper-V.
Wien (Vienna), Austria. The bank operates 1,700 retail locations through the Österreichische Post network and serves approximately 300,000 Austrian customers.
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