Description
**Senior Backend Developer**
We are looking for a **Senior Backend Developer** to drive people and businesses forward through innovation, with attitude, leadership, and a focus on making things happen.
**Your impact in this role:**
Support the development, evolution, and maintenance of backend applications, focusing on quality, performance, security, and engineering best practices.
Actively participate in defining technical solutions, contributing to architecture decisions, development standards, and microservice design.
Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams (product, business, QA, SRE, architecture, among others).\-
Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes, standards, and guidelines, reinforcing best practices, observability, and technical governance.
Contribute to the development and evolution of highly available APIs and integrations focused on the customer's digital journey.
✅ **Essential Requirements:**
Solid experience with Java 8\+ and Spring Boot
Experience with messaging systems, preferably RabbitMQ
Strong expertise in developing and maintaining microservices.
Knowledge of REST APIs (design, versioning, best practices) and SOAP integrations.
Experience with relational databases (preferably Oracle) and non-relational databases (preferably MongoDB).
* **Nice-to-have:**
Experience with observability: structured logging, metrics, and monitoring.
Work on high-performance systems, large-scale data processing, and performance optimization.
**Benefits:**
Remote work allowance
Flash card
Access to South Academy courses and certifications
Financial education program
**About South:**
You will join a collaborative team with autonomy and a focus on continuous improvement, working on projects with real business impact, where turning ideas into deliverables is part of everyday work.
We are recognized by our people: we have been named twice one of the best companies to work for in Brazil (GPTW).
We are committed to the future: we are a carbon-neutral company.
Interested? Apply now and help us make it happen.