Senior Java Backend Developer Hybrid | Alfragide, Portugal | Two openings | Urgent recruitment
Important location requirement — please read before applying This is a hybrid position based in Alfragide, Portugal, with regular onsite attendance required.
Due to the urgency of this recruitment process, we will only consider professionals who are already living in Portugal at the time of application.
Candidates currently living outside Portugal will not be considered — including candidates who are planning, willing or preparing to relocate. This is not a remote-from-abroad opportunity.
If high throughput, low latency, resilient systems — and the occasional circuit breaker — sound like good engineering rather than a collection of buzzwords, keep reading.
We are looking for two Senior Java Backend Developers to support and help build and evolve cloud-native, mission-critical payment technology.
This is a hands-on backend opportunity for someone who enjoys well-designed distributed systems, secure and observable code, and engineering challenges where performance and reliability genuinely matter.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain microservices, REST APIs and business logic using Java and Spring Boot.
- Build cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions, continuously improving their performance, resilience, latency and ability to handle high transaction volumes.
- Write unit, integration and contract tests, while supporting the QA team with test automation.
- Participate in the technical design of solutions alongside architects and in line with the established architecture.
- Collaborate closely with Architecture, QA, SRE, Security and Business teams during refinements, planning sessions and code reviews.
- Help ensure that services are secure and observable by design, using appropriate logging, distributed tracing and metrics.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation covering services, APIs and relevant technical decisions.
- Investigate incidents and technical problems in development and QA/certification environments, including third-line analysis and resolution.
Mandatory requirements
- A university degree.
- Solid professional experience with Java, including a strong understanding of concurrency and memory management.
- Professional experience with Spring Boot.
- A good understanding of distributed architectures and synchronous versus asynchronous communication patterns.
- Strong experience designing and working with REST APIs.
- Knowledge of failure-handling and resilience strategies, including retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks and idempotency.
- Professional experience with microservices and containerisation, including Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- Experience with modern software-development practices and tools, including Git, CI/CD, DevSecOps and code reviews.
- Automated testing experience with technologies such as JUnit, Mockito and Testcontainers.
- Availability to work in a hybrid model with onsite attendance in Alfragide.
- Current residence in Portugal. Applications from candidates currently based abroad cannot be considered.
Desirable experience
- Spring Cloud and the wider Spring ecosystem.
- Cloud-native environments, Docker or Podman, Kubernetes and 12-factor applications.
- High-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Distributed and event-driven architectures.
- Geo-distributed, relational, NoSQL or NewSQL databases, including technologies such as MongoDB or CockroachDB.
- Legacy-to-cloud-native migration programmes.
- Observability and SRE practices, including centralised logging, metrics and distributed tracing.
- Payment solutions, instant payments or other mission-critical financial systems.
- Payment standards and formats such as ISO 20022 and SEPA Instant.
The mindset that fits the team You enjoy learning, exploring modern architectures and working on highly critical systems. You care about quality, precision, security and the technical details that make software dependable.
You are also collaborative, comfortable sharing knowledge and open to both giving and receiving constructive feedback. Brilliant code is welcome; brilliant teamwork is essential.
Practical details
- Location: Alfragide, Portugal
- Working model: Hybrid, with onsite attendance required
- Openings: Two
- Working schedule: Standard working schedule
- Computer equipment: Provided
- Start: As soon as possible
Interested? If reliable systems, clean code and meaningful scale are your kind of fun — and you
already live in Portugal — we would be pleased to review your application.
Please submit your CV together with your current city in Portugal, notice period and earliest possible starting date.
Final reminder: applications from candidates currently living outside Portugal will not be considered for this urgent process, even when relocation to Portugal is planned.
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