[Job-32362] Senior Backend Developer (Java), Brazil
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
Our benefits:
- Health and dental insurance
- Meal and food allowance
- Childcare assistance
- 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
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