Senior Java Engineer | B2B | EU Enterprise Client | Remote Romania

Client: Leading international food wholesaler (HoReCa & Traders)
Engagement: B2B - 12 months initial (with the possibility of extension)
Location: Full Remote (only Romania)
Working time: 09:00–17:00/18:00 (Romanian time), flexible as long as delivery is consistent
Why Join Us
Build a brand-new, strategic product from the ground up
Direct impact on how goods orders are planned and executed end-to-end
Modern cloud-native stack: GCP, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, ReactJS, Datadog
Strong engineering culture: clean code, pair programming, continuous refactoring
Exposure to a large-scale international wholesale ecosystem
About the Project
This is a new strategic product - Goods Order Execution - designed to become the single point of truth for goods orders across the organization. The platform empowers planners, enables real-time decision-making, and is set to revolutionize end-to-end Order Management.
This engineering team is working at the intersection of backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native delivery.
The environment combines new product development with modern engineering practices, built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.
Team & Delivery Model
You will work inside a cross-functional team, responsible for the full software development life cycle, combining:
Backend Engineering (Java / Spring Boot)
Frontend Engineering (ReactJS)
QA & Test Automation (Cypress)
DevOps & Cloud Operations
Product / Delivery leadership
The team is part of a global, remote workforce delivering for a large international account.
The working style is agile and lean, with pair programming, continuous refactoring, and a strong focus on delivering the most value through small, well-defined stories.
What You Will Do
As a Senior Java Engineer, your work includes:
Designing and developing backend services in Java 17 / Spring Boot
Building scalable microservices and RESTful APIs secured with JWT
Implementing reliable distributed processing across multiple Kubernetes pods
Integrating event-driven flows using Google Cloud Pub/Sub or similar queuing services
Working with PostgreSQL and JPA for robust data persistence
Contributing to CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and deployments on GCP / Kubernetes
Monitoring and troubleshooting production services with Datadog
It is a mix of hands-on engineering, architecture thinking (DDD, microservices), and DevOps ownership.
Technical Stack
Must-Have:
Java 8/11/17 with Spring Boot (strong hands-on experience, 5+ years)
Strong JPA expertise and distributed processing across multiple pods
Queuing / messaging services (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar)
RESTful APIs and authorization mechanisms (JWT)
SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), Docker, Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Advanced English
Nice to Have
Spring WebFlux
Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google APIs
Logging & monitoring tools (Datadog, ELK Stack)
Domain Driven Design
ReactJS (fullstack exposure)
AI-assisted coding (GitHub Copilot)

Work arrangement
Yes