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Java Microservices Engineer

Country Ireland
Work Arrangement Remote
Application Deadline 21 October 2026

Overview

A European financial services platform is expanding its transaction processing capabilities and is looking for a Java specialist to strengthen the backend team. The assignment covers new services as well as improvements to existing services where reliability and throughput are important.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend services for transaction processing.
  • Improve existing services where reliability, throughput or maintainability can be strengthened.
  • Work with the team on API design, messaging and database changes.
  • Monitor production behaviour and contribute to troubleshooting and technical improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional Java development.
  • Strong Spring Boot experience and familiarity with the wider Spring ecosystem.
  • Proven work with microservices in production.
  • Good understanding of PostgreSQL, JPA and Hibernate.
  • Experience with Kafka or another enterprise messaging platform.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and service monitoring.