Senior Java Engineer
Java Engineer Opportunity We're looking for an experienced Java Engineer to join a collaborative, agile engineering team working on Java / Spring Boot / Vue.js solutions. You'll contribute across the stack, work closely with senior engineers and product stakeholders, and help continuously deliver secure, high-quality software that genuinely makes an impact. This is a hands-on role with strong ownership, technical depth, and real influence over design and engineering standards.
Role Responsibilities:
You will be joining our engineering team and will be a valued member working closely in a collaborative, autonomous, cross-functional team. You will help with the following:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java & Spring Boot, with exposure to Vue.js on the frontend
- Write and maintain a strong automated test suite (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
- Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring quality, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute to service and feature design discussions
- Debug and resolve complex issues in distributed systems
- Follow best practices around secure coding, CI/CD, source control, and release processes
- Coach and mentor junior engineers, raising the overall quality bar
- Provide predominantly 3rd-line support when required
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to continuously improve ways of working
Qualifications:
- We Are Looking For 5+ years of commercial experience with Java & Spring
- Experience working alongside a modern frontend framework (Vue.js or similar)
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIsSolid experience with automated testing (unit & integration)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Drone, similar)
- Comfortable working in Agile environments with short delivery cycles
- Confident using Git and modern codebase management practices
- Strong focus on code quality, security, and performance
- Experience reviewing code and providing constructive feedback
- Strong problem-solving skills and a real ownership mentality
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
Nice To Have:
- Experience with large-scale, high-performance systems
- Exposure to microservices architectures
- Knowledge of cloud-native development
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize
- Familiarity with event-driven/event-based architectures
- Leadership or mentoring experience
What's In It For You?
- Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues, and help create our company culture
- A culture in which we don't criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
- An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
- The possibility to grow and experience different projects
- Fully remote
- Ongoing Training & Mentoring
- The possibility of travelling- ATTENTION! THIS POSITION IS FOR PORTUGAL OR BRAZIL-BASED ONLY