Senior Java Software Developer

Role Description

About the company:

Damia Group is an international tech recruitment agency with 3 decades of experience. Our arrival in Portugal, 7 years later, was set on a mission to transform IT recruitment experiences and, through them, achieve better results. We believe in long-term relationships with a transparent and relaxed mindset. In a short period, we have reached the hearts of both scale-ups and larger organisations by delivering spot-on curated candidate shortlists, increased job offer acceptance rates and shorter time-to-fill.

Main Requirements

About the role: The Java team is responsible for building and maintaining a diverse portfolio of in-house applications. As a Senior Java Engineer, you will work with cutting-edge technologies and play a key role in designing scalable, flexible software architectures. You will also contribute to driving best practices in code quality, testing, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain backend systems using Java 17 and Spring Boot

- Leverage modern tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka for deployment and scalability

- Design and interact with relational databases (SQL) to support robust data-driven applications

- Utilize CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native services to streamline development and deployment workflows

- Contribute to system architecture design and participate in strategic technical decisions

- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define effective technical solutions

- Perform code reviews and implement automated testing to ensure high-quality, maintainable code

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance application performance, scalability, and reliability

- Mentor junior developers and foster a collaborative, knowledge-sharing team culture

Requirements:

- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is mandatory

- Over 6 years of professional experience in Java software development

- 5+ years of solid experience with Spring Boot

- Strong experience with SQL databases

- Deep knowledge of distributed systems and concurrency

- Experience writing clean, testable code with a focus on software architecture

- Strong communication skills, proactive problem-solving mindset, ability to work well under pressure, manage priorities independently, and mentor others

- Experience with Cloud Native development, Kafka event streaming, Docker, and Kubernetes container orchestration, and hands-on Test Driven Development (TDD) is a plus