AI-Driven Java Backend Engineer in Porto | Microservices

Sofico; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Meal allowance per working day

Fully covered private health insurance

Hybrid working and flexible hours

Modern co-working space in Porto

Structured onboarding with a dedicated

coach

Room to help shape how your team works

Ongoing learning opportunities

Casual drinks, team activities and公司‑w

Job summary

Sofico in Porto, Portugal is seeking an AI-native Software Engineer, Java Backend / Microservices to join an end-to-end delivery team. You will design and build robust Java backend services, applying Domain-Driven Design and delivering APIs that serve real business needs.

You will work with AI agents across the lifecycle, review outputs, and help shape agentic workflows. The role offers hybrid working, competitive salary, meal allowance, private health insurance, and opportunities to grow in a

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Java backend development.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design and defining service boundaries.
• Experience building REST APIs with consumers in mind.
• Experience with microservices, SQL databases, and relational databases.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants or engineering agents.
• Judgement to assess when agent output is sufficient.
• Product-minded approach to understand problems and own delivery.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to other international offices.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Java backend services and microservices that turn complex business requirements into clear domain models.
• Use Domain-Driven Design to define service boundaries, responsibilities and interactions, both synchronous and asynchronous.
• Build and evolve APIs as products, focusing on consumer needs, documentation, versioning and backward compatibility.
• Work with AI agents across the whole lifecycle, from specification and design to implementation, testing and review.
• Critically review and validate agent output, and take responsibility for everything that gets merged.
• Investigate production issues and use what you learn to improve reliability.
• Take part in code reviews and engineering decisions.
• Help your team find agentic workflows that work and share them with the wider engineering community.

Skills

Java backend

Domain-Driven Design

REST APIs

Microservices

SQL databases

AI agents

Product mindset

Travel readiness

Job description

Sofico in Porto, Portugal is seeking an AI-native Software Engineer, Java Backend / Microservices to join an end-to-end delivery team. You will design and build robust Java backend services, applying Domain-Driven Design and delivering APIs that serve real business needs.

You will work with AI agents across the lifecycle, review outputs, and help shape agentic workflows. The role offers hybrid working, competitive salary, meal allowance, private health insurance, and opportunities to grow in a