Java Developer

About the project

Europa Search is supporting a leading European consultancy, in expanding its Java team working on digital government and healthcare platforms in Belgium (clients include CHU-Brugmann, Christelijke Mutualiteit, NIHDI–INAMI–RIZIV, and Jette Local Administration).

You’ll join the Java team responsible for the back-end of a digital wallet application, contributing to long-term, high-impact public sector systems.

Your day-to-day

• Develop, test, and maintain back-end services using Java 17+ and Spring Boot.
• Collaborate within an Agile/Scrum team and ensure production-quality code.
• Work on distributed and enterprise-scale systems, integrating APIs and databases.
• (Senior) Take ownership of solution design, mentor team members, and support architectural decisions.

Essential skills

• Strong experience with Java 17 and above
• Excellent knowledge of Spring / Spring Boot
• Experience building RESTful APIs and working with relational databases
• Fluent in English + French or Dutch

Bonus / Nice-to-have skills

• Front-end exposure with Vue.js or Nuxt.js
• Broader Java ecosystem experience: Java EE, Quarkus, Vaadin
• CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift, ArgoCD)
• Testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium)
• Database experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, Neo4J)
• Knowledge of security standards (OAuth, WS Security)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Kibana, and code quality tools (Sonar, Snyk)
• Agile, Scrum, TDD, or DDD experience

Personal traits

• Takes ownership and delivers consistent results
• Reliable, proactive, and team-oriented
• Comfortable working in a hybrid international environment