Senior Backend Developer (Java), Brazil

CI&T; Brasil; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Meal allowance

Extended parental leave

Wellbeing partnerships

Profit sharing

Life insurance

CI&T University

Gym/Wellness discounts

Job summary

CI&T is seeking a Senior Java Backend Developer to join a squad delivering financial services software. You will design, build and maintain RESTful APIs while modernising legacy components and ensuring platform stability.

You will collaborate with frontend, QA, Product Owner and Tech Lead in an Agile environment, implement tests with JUnit, optimize SQL on Oracle, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and production support.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5 years of backend Java development experience.
• Strong automated testing skills with JUnit and Mockito.
• Experience with Maven: multi-module projects, dependency management and build lifecycle.
• Experience building Java web applications: REST APIs, JSON/XML handling, HTTP and request/response lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of a Java application framework (Spring Boot, Jakarta EE or similar) and persistence with JPA/Hibernate.
• A solid grasp of object-oriented design, SOLID principles and common design patterns.
• Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull request workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps).
• Experience working in agile teams (Scrum or Kanban) and good English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs in Java
• Write clean, testable code with good unit and integration test coverage using JUnit
• Model data and write efficient SQL against Oracle DB, and tune queries, indexes and transactions
• Understand, maintain and refactor legacy modules, including XSLT-rendered pages, and help plan their migration
• Join refinement sessions: break features down into technical tasks, estimate them and raise risks early
• Review pull requests and help keep coding standards and technical documentation in good shape
• Work with DevOps and QA on build pipelines, deployments and production support
• Help investigate and fix incidents across environments

Skills

Java (11+)

JUnit

Maven

REST APIs

Spring Boot / JPA

Git & CI/CD

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

English communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI/Swagger

Oracle DB

Job description

At CI&T, we help large enterprises transform the potential of AI into real business impact with AI Deployment, AI-native execution, and tech-integrated business solutions.

With 30 years of experience in technological transformation, we accelerate innovation with expertise in Agentic SDLC, Application modernization, Data & AI, Martech and Business strategy.

We are 8,000 CI&Ters across more than 25 countries, collaborating to build solutions with real impact. AI is already part of how we work, evolve, and innovate every day.

We’re looking for a Senior Java Backend Developer to join a CI&T squad working on a financial services client. You’ll help modernise an established Java web platform. That means building new services and APIs, keeping the existing platform stable, and gradually moving legacy functionality onto a cleaner architecture. You’ll work closely with frontend developers, QA, a Product Owner and a Tech Lead, using agile practices.

What you’ll do

• Design, build and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs in Java
• Write clean, testable code with good unit and integration test coverage using JUnit
• Model data and write efficient SQL against Oracle DB, and tune queries, indexes and transactions
• Understand, maintain and refactor legacy modules, including XSLT-rendered pages, and help plan their migration
• Join refinement sessions: break features down into technical tasks, estimate them and raise risks early
• Review pull requests and help keep coding standards and technical documentation in good shape
• Work with DevOps and QA on build pipelines, deployments and production support
• Help investigate and fix incidents across environments

What you need (must-have)

• Around 5 years of professional experience in backend development with Java (Java 11+, ideally 17/21)
• Solid automated testing skills with JUnit, plus mocking frameworks such as Mockito
• Hands-on experience with Maven: multi-module projects, dependency management and build lifecycle
• Experience building Java web applications: REST APIs, JSON/XML handling, HTTP and request/response lifecycle
• Good knowledge of a Java application framework (Spring Boot, Jakarta EE or similar) and persistence with JPA/Hibernate
• A solid grasp of object-oriented design, SOLID principles and common design patterns
• Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull request workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps)
• Experience working in agile teams (Scrum or Kanban)
• Good English communication skills for working with international stakeholders

Nice to have

• Quarkus, or other cloud-native Java frameworks
• Apache Kafka: producers, consumers, topics and event-driven design
• AWS S3, and AWS services in general
• Maintaining or migrating legacy pages built with XSLT (and XML/XPath)
• Database migration tools such as Flyway or Liquibase
• API documentation with OpenAPI/Swagger
• Containerisation with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Application security basics: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, and OWASP Top 10 awareness
• Observability: structured logging, metrics and tracing (e.g. ELK, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Code quality tools such as SonarQube
• Experience in banking or other regulated environments

Benefits

• -Health and dental insurance
• -Meal and food allowance
• -Extended paternity leave
• -Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;
• - Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);
• -Life insurance
• - Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);
• -Discount club
• -Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
• -Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
• -Partnerships with online learning platforms
• -Language learning platform
• And many more!

More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras

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