Senior Java Developer

Team: IT

Location: Brazil

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Java Developer, you will design and develop robust backend solutions while contributing to the scalability, reliability, and performance of a customer-facing digital platform. You will collaborate across engineering and technical teams to deliver high-quality systems and continuously improve development and operational practices.

• Design, develop, and implement large-scale distributed systems capable of handling substantial data volumes and traffic.
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design and implement APIs and event-driven solutions supporting reliable system communication.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native backend services with a focus on scalability, availability, and performance.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across application, service, infrastructure, and integration layers.
• Develop and execute unit, API, regression, and performance tests to ensure system quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to investigate incidents and deliver rapid, effective resolutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and technical decisions.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to continuous improvements across CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and engineering workflows.
• Work with event streaming technologies and distributed data processing patterns.
• Help identify opportunities to improve system resilience, maintainability, and overall customer experience.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced backend engineer with a strong foundation in Java and distributed systems. You should be comfortable working on high-scale platforms, solving complex technical problems, contributing to architecture decisions, and collaborating effectively within international engineering teams.

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and experience with Kafka or other event streaming technologies.
• Experience working with AWS and EKS or comparable cloud and container orchestration environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and related development and deployment tools.
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, availability, performance, and reliability principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs and backend services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote and international team environment.
• Advanced English proficiency at C1 level or higher.

Benefits:

• Full-time remote position based in Brazil.
• Opportunity to work on a large-scale international e-commerce platform.
• Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and distributed systems.
• Opportunity to influence architectural decisions and engineering best practices.
• Work with challenging, high-traffic systems focused on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborative international environment with experienced technical teams.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
• Flexible remote-first working environment.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, CI/CD, and modern backend engineering practices.