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Zartis is a digital solutions provider working across technology strategy, software engineering and product development.

We partner with firms across financial services, MedTech, media, logistics technology, renewable energy, EdTech, e-commerce, and more. Our engineering hubs in EMEA and LATAM are full of talented professionals delivering business success and digital improvement across application development, software architecture, CI/CD, business intelligence, QA automation, and new technology integrations.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on a project in the financial industry.

Our teammates are talented people that come from a variety of backgrounds. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and innovation. You’ll be working with long-established, market-leading nutritional clients through a wide range of investment and advisory services.

Our client is continuing to modernise and scale its digital platforms, making technology central to delivering secure, reliable, and high-quality financial services experiences.You will be part of a distributed team developing new technologies to solve real business problems. We are looking for someone with good communication skills, ideally with experience making decisions, being proactive, used to building software from scratch, and with good attention to detail.

• Work in close coordination with our business users, vendors, and other stakeholders to craft solutions to business problems considering functional and non-functional requirements. Develop and maintain business requirements, design documents, and other appropriate project documentation.
• Take a lead role in the design and implementation of new components and functionality. Project management of key tasks and initiatives providing timely status and project updates to key stakeholders.
• Liaise with the test team and all project stakeholders to ensure solutions are fully tested. Creation and execution of automated test scripts wherever possible. Evaluate new technologies & 3rd party solutions.
• Liaise with new & existing vendors to develop integrations with 3rd party solutions.
• Design and develop technical solutions which are robust, secure, and easily maintainable, in line with development standards and best practices.
• Create technical documentation such as design documents, guidelines, and standards. Actively review and contribute to the creation of department standards and guidelines.
• Provide technical direction & leadership to more junior team members. Act as a mentor to junior members of the team.
• Contribute to overall department goals and objectives.

• 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience with Java/J2EE and related JVM technologies.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Spring ecosystem: Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and Spring Integration.
• Proven experience designing technical solutions from business requirements, including making pragmatic architecture decisions.
• Solid track record in building and maintaining microservices and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of HTTP protocols and designing/consuming REST APIs.
• Experience implementing web application security best practices (secure coding, authN/authZ, OWASP awareness).
• Strong SQL and RDBMS skills with Oracle/MySQL (or equivalent).
• Proficiency with Git, modern IDEs, and collaborative development workflows.
• Working knowledge of Linux environments.
• Experience working in Agile teams with shared ownership and iterative delivery.

• Experience developing Single Page Applications (SPAs).
• Exposure to modern frontend frameworks such as AngularJS / Angular (2+) (or equivalent).
• Experience working with DevOps tooling and practices (e.g., Jenkins, Ansible or similar).
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other message‑queue systems.
• Background delivering web solutions for Financial Services organisations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate high‑level solutions into functional specifications and formal business requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and comfort working in cross-functional, distributed project teams.

• 100% Remote Work.
• WFH allowance:Monthly payment as financial support for remote working.
• Career Growth: We have established a career development program accessible for all employees with a 360º feedback that will help us to guide you in your career progression
• Training: For Tech training at Zartis, you have time allocated during the week at your disposal. You can request from a variety of options, such as online courses (from Pluralsight and Educative.io, for example), English classes, books, conferences, and events.
• Mentoring Program: You can become a mentor in Zartis or you can receive mentorship, or both.
• Zartis Wellbeing Hub (Kara Connect): A platform that provides sessions with a range of specialists, including mental health professionals, nutritionists, physiotherapists, fitness coaches, and webinars with such professionals as well.4
• Multicultural working environment: We organize tech events, webinars, parties, and activities to do online team‑building games and contests.