Design, develop, and maintain Java microservices with a focus on performance, scalability, and resilience;
Collaborate with architecture, product, and infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions;
Define development standards, best practices, and participate in code reviews;
Build and maintain RESTful APIs, system integrations, and asynchronous messaging workflows (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar);
Implement automated tests (unit, integration, and contract tests) to ensure delivery quality and reliability;
Collaborate with the DevOps team to evolve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and observability;
Actively participate in architectural decisions and modernize legacy systems for cloud-native environments;
Monitor and optimize application performance in production, proposing continuous improvements and reliability engineering practices (SRE mindset).

Strong experience with Java 21;
Experience with Micronaut and Spring;
Experience with microservices and REST APIs;
Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases;
Experience with AWS and Kubernetes;
Understanding of security and authentication;
Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK);
Automated testing.
Desired/Preferred:
Experience with reactive architecture (Spring WebFlux, Reactor);
Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, GCP Functions);
Previous experience in financial services or regulated environments;
Familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience, and load testing practices;
Contributions to communities or open source, or experience mentoring technically.

Backend Developer, Java (Mid-level)

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