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