Description
**Role description** **We are still looking for the very Top Talent…and we would be delighted if you were to join our team!**
More in details, **UST** is a multinational company based in North America, certified as a **Top Employer** and **Great Place to Work** company with over **35,000 employees** all over the world and presence in more than **35 countries**. We are leaders in digital technology services, and we provide large\-scale technological solutions to big companies.
**What we look for?**
We are looking for a **Senior** **Java Developer** to join a highly innovative team working within a **microservice\-based cloud environment** in the utility technology sector.
You will play a key role in designing, developing, and supporting secure, scalable, and maintainable Java services, APIs, and integrations that connect critical business systems and internal tools.
* **Key Responsibilities:**
* Design and implement Java services, REST APIs, integration adapters, and extension components using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
* Translate business requirements, user stories, and interface specifications into clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
* Develop RESTful APIs with proper validation, versioning, pagination, security, and error\-handling mechanisms.
* Implement reliable event\-driven and asynchronous integrations, ensuring resiliency through retry, timeout, correlation, idempotency, and dead\-letter patterns.
* Build and optimize persistence layers using Hibernate/JPA and SQL best practices.
* Integrate microservices and internal tools with CRM, finance, payment, analytics, web, and mobile platforms.
* Create and maintain unit, integration, component, and contract tests to ensure high\-quality software delivery.
* Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, backlog refinement, and secure development practices.
* Troubleshoot production incidents using logs, metrics, traces, and database analysis, providing sustainable root\-cause solutions.
* Support CI/CD pipelines, automated quality controls, deployment processes, and cloud\-native engineering practices.
* Contribute to technical documentation, operational procedures, and service supportability improvements.
* Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, scalability, and security standards.
**Mandatory Requirements:**
* Strong professional experience developing enterprise applications with **Java**.
* Hands\-on experience with **Spring Framework** and **Spring Boot**.
* Solid knowledge of **Hibernate/JPA**, relational databases, and **SQL optimization**.
* Experience designing and consuming **REST APIs** and working with **OpenAPI/Swagger** specifications.
* Experience with **event\-driven architectures**, asynchronous messaging, or distributed systems.
* Strong testing experience using **JUnit**, **Mockito**, and integration/contract testing frameworks.
* Experience working with **Git**, **Maven/Gradle**, CI/CD pipelines, and code review practices.
* Understanding of secure coding principles, authentication, authorization, observability, logging, and monitoring.
* Strong analytical, problem\-solving, and debugging skills.
* Excellent communication skills and**fluent English.**
**Nice to have:**
* Experience in utility, customer information, billing, payment, or energy\-sector platforms.
* Knowledge of platforms such as **SAP Utilities**, **Oracle Utilities**, **Kraken Technologies**, or **Hansen**.
Experience with **AWS**, including:
* API Gateway
* Lambda
* Fargate
* EventBridge
* SQS/SNS
* Aurora
* CloudWatch
* IAM
* Secrets Manager
* Experience with containers, infrastructure\-as\-code, and cloud\-native deployment patterns.
* Knowledge of distributed tracing, performance testing, and production support for high\-volume systems.
* Understanding of customer, metering, usage, tariff, billing, payment, and debt\-management processes within utilities.
**What can we offer?**
* 23 days of Annual Leave plus the 24th and 31st of December as discretionary days!
* Numerous benefits (Health Care Plan, Internet Connectivity, Life and Accident Insurances).
* Retribución Flexible Program: (Meals, Kindergarten, Transport, Online English Lessons, Health Care Plan…)
* Free access to several training platforms.
* Professional stability and career plans.
* UST also compensates referrals, from which you could benefit when you refer professionals.
* The option to pick between 12 or 14 payments along the year.
* Real Work\-Life Balance measures (flexibility, WFH or remote work policy, compacted hours during summertime…).
* UST Club Platform discounts and gym access discounts.
**If you would like to know more, do not hesitate to apply and we’ll get in touch to fill you in details. UST is waiting for you!**
At **UST**, we are committed to equal opportunities in our selection processes and do not discriminate based on race, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or nationality. We have a special commitment to Disability \& Inclusion, so we are interested in hiring people with a disability certificate.
**Skills**
Java, AWS, REST
**About UST**
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future\-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.