Software Developer - Java Backend
Sofico is hiring a Java backend engineer (medior or senior) in Porto to evolve Miles, its enterprise platform for automotive finance, leasing, fleet and mobility. Day to day you design and maintain Java microservices and REST APIs, translating business requirements into scalable code with testing, DDD and event-driven/cloud-native practices.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Porto, Portugal
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Professional experience in Java backend development
- Java
Nice to have
- Spring Boot, Quarkus or another modern Java framework
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- SQL and relational databases
- Automated unit and integration testing
- Git and modern software development practices
- Domain-Driven Design
- Kafka or other messaging technologies
- Event-driven architectures
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Cloud-native development
- Observability and production troubleshooting
Full description
**Software Engineer – Java Backend / Microservices (m/f/d)
Porto, Portugal | Product Engineering**
Why SOFICO?
At SOFICO, we’re shaping the future of mobility — and we’re doing it together.
We are an international Belgian software product company developing Miles, our enterprise platform for automotive finance, leasing, fleet and mobility.
Miles supports complex business processes throughout the full lifecycle of a finance or leasing contract — from quotation and pricing to contract management, billing, assets, services and integrations.
For our growing Product Engineering team in Porto, we are looking for Java backend engineers who want to help evolve Miles and build software that is used as part of a long-term international product.
Your role
As a Software Engineer in our Product organisation, you’ll work on the continued development of Miles and its backend capabilities.
This is a hands-on product development role where you’ll translate business and domain requirements into Java services, APIs and microservice-based solutions.
You won’t simply implement isolated technical tasks. You’ll work closely with other engineers, analysts and internal consumers to understand the business problem behind a feature, contribute to the technical solution and take ownership of what you build.
You’ll be working in a complex enterprise domain where maintainability, scalability, reliability and long-term product evolution matter.
Our engineering landscape includes a large Java ecosystem and an increasing focus on modern backend services, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud-native development.
What will you do?
- Design, develop and maintain Java backend services within Miles;
- Translate complex business and domain requirements into scalable software solutions;
- Develop and evolve REST APIs used by other Miles components and integrations;
- Contribute to our microservice architecture and apply Domain-Driven Design principles where appropriate;
- Work with internal API consumers and integrations with external systems;
- Work with synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns depending on the use case;
- Take ownership of functionality from design and implementation through testing, release and production;