Senior Java Backend Engineer – SRE, Cloud & Observability

ABOUT GETNET

Getnet Platformsis part ofSantander Payment Solutions and brings together a set of key platforms within Santander’s global payments technology ecosystem. It includes software-as-a-service capabilities across the entire payments value chain, such as account-to-account processing, FX, SWIFT connectivity, fraud management and card processing infrastructure.

It enables financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and payment service providers (PSPs) to operate, scale and evolve their payment capabilities across multiple rails, markets and regulatory environments, without the need to rebuild their core systems.

Proven at scale, including within Santander itself, these platforms provide a modular foundation that complements Getnet’s global payment capabilities to support client growth through payments.

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM

If you want to shape the future of financial solutions, this is the place!

At Getnet Platforms, your work connects to something bigger, creating a real impact across global teams and markets for our clients and communities.

Our people are our greatest strength. We combine growth opportunities, strong team connections, and a culture that supports your well-being and sense of belonging, so you can develop, contribute, and feel valued. With flexibility and autonomy built into how we work, you’ll have the space to focus, collaborate, and perform at your best.

Here, your impact matters, your growth is supported, and your experience is designed to help you thrive.

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The selected candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and continuous evolution of applications and infrastructure. This role combines software engineering practices, automation, observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and operational excellence to deliver highly available and resilient solutions.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

Analyze, develop, maintain, and enhance software applications, including the creation and maintenance of automated test suites.

Collaborate with Solution Architects in defining and detailing technical architectures, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards, governance policies, and industry best practices.

Partner closely with development teams throughout deployment, release, and environment stabilization activities, implementing fixes and hotfixes whenever necessary.

Lead post-incident analyses (post-mortems), identify root causes, and propose preventive actions to improve application stability, reliability, and performance.

Establish and manage recurring monitoring routines for application and infrastructure health, driving a proactive reliability-focused approach.

Design and implement automation and self-healing mechanisms, leveraging SRE and FinOps principles to optimize cost efficiency, performance, and service availability.

Implement end-to-end observability strategies through logs, metrics, and distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry and related monitoring frameworks.

Perform predictive performance analysis, load and stress testing, and apply Chaos Engineering practices to validate system resilience and fault tolerance.

Continuously improve operational processes, monitoring capabilities, and platform reliability through automation and engineering excellence.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Strong experience with Java 17.

Proven experience designing, developing, and supporting microservices-based architectures.

Hands-on experience with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Quarkus, and Apache Camel.

Experience designing, consuming, and exposing SOAP and RESTful APIs.

Experience with API Management and API Gateway platforms such as Apigee and AWS API Gateway.

Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis).

Solid understanding of design patterns and modern architectural principles, including Hexagonal Architecture, Clean Architecture, and Event-Driven Architecture.

Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and source code management using Git and GitFlow.

Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Helm.

Experience automating build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.

Familiarity with code quality and software governance tools such as SonarQube and Sonatype.

Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including Dynatrace, Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, and AWS CloudWatch.

Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed observability practices, including logging, metrics collection, and tracing.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.

Experience working with messaging and event-streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ.

Experience with automated testing frameworks, including JUnit and Cucumber.Knowledge of application security best practices, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS, and Secrets Management.

Experience working with cloud platforms, primarily AWS and Azure, including services such as EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, IAM, AKS, and related cloud-native technologies.

Knowledge of FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization strategies.

Experience troubleshooting application performance issues, including heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, JVM profiling, and Java performance tuning.

WHAT CAN EARN YOU EXTRA POINTS

• Professional proficiency in English and/or Spanish will be considered a strong advantage due to regular interaction with international stakeholders and cross-border teams.

OUR OFFER AND BENEFITS

🩺 Medical assistance 🦷 Dental assistance 🥳 Birthday day off 🚑 Life insurance 💉 Annual vaccination campaign 🚌 Transportation allowance 🍕 Meal voucher/food voucher 💰 Annual bonus 🧠 Specialized Personal Support Program (PAPE)

Getnet Platforms is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates.