Senior Backend Engineer

UpHill

Lisboa

On-site

EUR 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive health insurance

Top-tier equipment — new MacBook + _?

Flexible schedule and hybrid work mode

No-BS culture

Job summary

UpHill, Lda. in Portugal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team building a decision support SaaS platform for healthcare.

You will design and implement microservices in Java 17 / Spring Boot 3, deploy on AWS, and ensure scalable, secure solutions that improve patient outcomes. You will work autonomously yet collaboratively with product, design, and ops, uphold coding standards, and drive production readiness while maintaining a strong focus on quality and

Qualifications

Bachelor or higher in computer engineering or equivalent.
Strong backend experience with Java/Spring in production.
Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

Design microservices in collaboration with the architect and define APIs and data models.
Develop, test, and maintain microservices with Java 17 and Spring Boot 3.
Contribute to AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment practices.
Showcase solutions during reviews with clear design decisions.
Define and uphold coding conventions across the team.
Own initiatives and deliver end-to-end features.
Operate autonomously while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Focus on product value and user outcomes.

Skills

Java 17 / Java 11+

Spring Boot 3

Docker

AWS Cloud

Relational SQL

NoSQL databases

Testing (Unit/Integration)

Observability (CloudWatch/DataDog/Prom

Microservices architecture

English fluency

Education

MSc/BSc in Computer Engineering or similar

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus/OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

DataDog

Job description

About UpHill

At UpHill, our mission is to increase clinical capacity so healthcare professionals can focus on what matters most — the patients. Healthcare teams are either stretched thin by work that can be automated or weighed down by waste that can be avoided. UpHill's intelligent automated platform uses hospital data and patient conversations to turn chaos into useful and efficient interactions.

We build conversational AI agents, intelligent clinical pathways, and care orchestration tools that empower clinicians to work at their full potential — deployed across leading hospitals in Europe, with 100K+ lives impacted and over 1 million clinical interactions mediated. UpHill Route is a certified Class IIa Medical Device.

We're a team of curious and creative people who believe technology should enhance — not replace — the work of healthcare professionals. If you're excited about making a real impact in one of the most meaningful industries in the world, you just might be an Uphiller.

Today we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our talented team and help us build a decision support SaaS platform that will revolutionize healthcare, minimize medical error and thus improve patient outcomes.

Stack Used

Java 17 · Spring Boot 3
Docker
Relational SQL and Document NoSQL
AWS — Fargate (service architecture), EventBridge, SQS, Cognito, Lambda — Terraform

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the architect to design microservices: Work closely with the architect to understand product requirements and translate them into a technical solution using microservices architecture — defining service boundaries, APIs, data models, and communication protocols.
Develop and maintain microservices: Translate the designed architecture into well-written, clean, maintainable, and testable code using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3. Ensure services are performant, scalable, and secure.
Contribute to AWS cloud infrastructure: Participate in designing, deploying, and maintaining the AWS cloud infrastructure that supports the SaaS application.
Showcase implemented solutions: Communicate and demonstrate technical solutions during sprint reviews — presentations, demos, or documentation that explain design choices, functionality, and trade-offs.
Define and uphold coding conventions: Work with the team to establish and maintain clear, consistent coding standards — identifying areas for improvement and documenting agreed-upon practices.
Ownership mentality: You ship and maintain what you build.
Autonomous but collaborative: Capable of owning initiatives while working effectively with cross-functional teams (product, design, ops, etc.).
Product-focused: You care about the why as much as the how behind every feature.

Main Requirements

MSc/BSc in Computer Engineering or similar
Minimum 7 years of backend development experience using Object-Oriented Programming
Experience in Java 11 or newer, Spring Boot, and Spring Framework
Experience in event-driven architecture
Experience with Relational SQL and Document NoSQL databases
Strong testing experience — Unit, Integration, E2E
Rigorous about code quality — usage of tools like SonarQube
Experience taking part in architectural discussions and decisions
Strong observability mindset: familiarity with tools like CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — understands logging, metrics, and alerting in production-grade SaaS
Keen awareness of the evolving software landscape, including the integration of AI assistants and productivity tools in day-to-day engineering work
Experience designing systems for production readiness: health checks, distributed tracing, incident response
Experience in code reviews and working collaboratively in a team
Fluency in English