Backend Developer Java

VAAS is a Brazilian risk-intelligence platform unifying compliance, fraud prevention, and credit decisioning.

Florianópolis, Brazil
About VAAS

VAAS Tecnologia Ltda operates a B2B risk-management platform for fintechs, banks, insurers, and other enterprises. Its platform combines data-source orchestration, configurable workflows, AI agents, collaborative decision tables, and continuous risk monitoring for KYC/KYB/KYE/KYS, compliance, fraud prevention, and credit operations.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design, build, and maintain high-performance, secure, and scalable Java APIs and services. You will model and query SQL and NoSQL data, integrate services, write automated tests, improve CI/CD pipelines, review code, mentor colleagues, and strengthen reliability, performance, observability, and security practices.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with Java 8+ and ideally Java 21
  • Experience with Spring Boot, including Web, Data, Validation, Actuator, and Security
  • At least 2 years of production backend-development experience
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
  • Experience with automated testing, continuous integration, security practices, and code-quality practices

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain Java APIs and services
  • Model data and write efficient SQL and NoSQL queries
  • Integrate services through REST/JSON and messaging
  • Write unit, integration, and contract tests
  • Automate quality checks in CI
  • Review code and diagrams and mentor colleagues
  • Improve JVM and SQL performance, resilience, SLOs, and runbooks
  • Implement security practices including OAuth2/OIDC, input validation, secrets management, and OWASP protections
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, GitOps deployments, observability, containers, and Kubernetes

Benefits

  • 30 days of paid leave after one year
  • Caju food and transportation allowance for hybrid or onsite workers
  • Wellhub membership
  • Conexa telemedicine and Psicologia Viva access
  • Two monthly nutritionist consultations
  • Two monthly psychologist consultations
  • Reduced-price general practitioner and specialist telemedicine appointments
  • Discounts on Dasa network exams
  • Pharmacy discounts at Pague Menos
  • Free parking
  • Birthday-month day off

Hiring Process

Application → screening → HR cultural-fit conversation → technical interview with managers → final interview with directors → offer