Ingrid Bakke
Strategy and the relationship with the bank.
Wndy is the technology company behind Windy City Banking — engineering, securing and shaping the digital foundation that millions depend on. We are a separate house with our own pace, our own tools, and our own taste.
Wndy exists because building modern financial technology demands a modern technology environment. We are wholly owned by Windy City Banking, but we run on our own tempo — with engineering culture, design standards, and tooling shaped for people who want to do the best work of their career.
Same group. Different gravity. We share the bank's customers and its long horizon — and we keep the speed, autonomy and craft of a product company.
We are technologists who happen to work in finance, not financiers who happen to write code. That distinction shows up everywhere: in how we hire, how we design, how we ship, and how seriously we take security. The bank's customers don't see us — but they feel us in every transaction that clears, every login that holds, every product that arrives sooner than they expected.
We're a small enough team to know each other's names and a big enough team to take on the kind of work most product companies never get near.
We don't carve ourselves into silos. Most of our teams sit at the seams — where security meets product, where platform meets data, where strategy meets the next sprint.
A small leadership team, close to the work. Most of them still review code, sit in on research, or carry a pager — the org chart is shallow on purpose.
Strategy and the relationship with the bank.
Architecture and engineering direction.
Security, identity and the red team.
Product strategy and the customer surface.
Data platform, ML, and risk & fraud models.
Delivery, platform, and how the place runs.
The design system, brand, and craft bar.
Hiring, growth, and culture.
We hire people who care about the craft and trust them to run with it. You'll work close to the bank's most critical systems, with the time, autonomy and tooling to do the work properly — and a team that will tell you when you're wrong.
When you push to main here, a million customers are downstream. We don't ship to feel busy — we ship because something needs to exist. Most of our work outlives the quarter and a fair amount of it outlives the year.
The laptop you want. Licenses for the IDE you actually use. A platform team whose job is to make your day easier. We measure the platform on whether engineers reach for it — not whether they have to.
Product, design and engineering decide together. You set the roadmap with your team, you ship it, and you carry the pager. We trust people closest to the work to know what to do next.
A real learning budget. Friday afternoons for the side of the brain you don't bill. Internal study groups on rust, post-quantum, applied ML, distributed systems — whatever someone is fired up about this month.
You won't have to invent reasons your work matters. You'll see your changes in the bank app on Monday morning, and you'll hear about it the next time something is off.
Bodø sits a hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Two months of midnight sun, two months without it. Open water in three directions and mountains in the fourth. We don't put any of that on the homepage as a postcard — but it's in how we think about technology.