Backend Jobs in Portugal
There are 336 open Backend jobs in Portugal on freehire right now. 219 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, java and cloud.
Most requested skills
- api 63%
- java 57%
- cloud 47%
- ci-cd 45%
- microservices 43%
- rest 40%
- agile 40%
- aws 38%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 113 · 34%
- Remote 68 · 20%
- Onsite 17 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 50% of the 14 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 123
- Middle 14
- Staff 11
- Junior 10
- Lead 7
- Principal 3
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 22
- 501-1000 employees 14
- 51-200 employees 7
- 11-50 employees 2
- 201-500 employees 1
English level
- C1 84%
- B2 16%
Share of the postings that state a required level (at least 20% of this market do).
Java Backend Developer
Senior Java backend developer (100% remote from Portugal) designing, building and maintaining scalable services for an international retail project. Core stack: modern Java, Spring Boot, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, GraphQL Federation on Azure Cloud.
Senior Backend Developer
Match Profiler, an IT consultancy, is hiring a Senior Backend Developer (remote, Portugal) to join an internal team/client, focused on data work with Azure Synapse Analytics (Serverless SQL pools), advanced SQL, and PySpark. Fluent English is required.
Backend Developer (Java)
Backend Developer building RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices in Java (Spring, or Micronaut/Quarkus) with RabbitMQ/Kafka, MySQL/MariaDB, Git, JUnit/Mockito and Maven/Gradle in a Scrum environment, at Elevus, a recruitment and outsourcing company.
Backend Developer
Mid-level backend developer at Connect Digital in Portugal, designing, building, and maintaining scalable microservices and REST APIs with Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform; hybrid role requiring one office day per week in Lisbon, Braga, or Coimbra.
Backend Developer Java
Backend Java developer for askblue, an IT services company, working on a banking-sector project in Lisbon: developing and maintaining applications, adopting AI dev tools, documenting, mentoring juniors, and liaising with the Product Owner. Stack: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, Oracle/PostgreSQL/MongoDB. Hybrid, two office days per week.
Java Backend Developer
Planck Technologies is hiring a Java Backend Developer for an international project with a luxury-goods client in Lisbon (hybrid, 3 days/week onsite). Day to day: building scalable Java microservices for checkout, MyAccount and ODR flows, plus REST/GraphQL APIs, Keycloak/Okta auth (OIDC, RBAC) and event-driven integrations with AWS SQS and Solace.
API Backend Developer - Sports Trading
Backend developer building and optimizing 55 Tech's odds feed API infrastructure for sports and esports data — managing databases, data mapping, scheduling systems, and a scraping network with a focus on reliability and low latency. Core stack is Python, with PostgreSQL, Git, Node.js, React, and Supabase as pluses.
Golang backend developer
Decskill, a Portuguese IT consulting firm with 800+ professionals, is hiring a Golang backend developer for long-term client projects in a hybrid model based in Lisbon or Porto. The role centers on Go microservices, RESTful APIs, Docker, SQL/NoSQL databases, and Git-based Agile development.
Backend Developer - Remoto
Noesis Portugal is hiring a senior backend developer (4+ years) to design and build scalable, reliable backend services, fully remote. Core stack spans C#/.NET, Java and Go on AWS/Azure with Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Docker and Kubernetes, plus AI coding tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot; includes a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Java Backend Developer
Ovyo is hiring a mid-senior Java Backend Developer to design, build and operate event-driven microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS, powering a large-scale Video-on-Demand and Live Events platform. Core stack: Java 11+, MySQL/PostgreSQL, with AWS and Docker as nice-to-haves. Contract role.
Backend Developer
Backend developer at IT consultancy Aubay Portugal, building and evolving critical backend systems for large banking, insurance, telecom and energy clients. Day-to-day work centers on Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and messaging (RabbitMQ/Kafka) in microservices architectures, with potential AI agent development using ADK/Vertex AI.
Senior Backend Developer
Senior Backend Developer at Sky Portugal building highly scalable microservices for global OTT streaming platforms (Peacock, NOW, SkyShowtime, Showmax). Day-to-day work spans the full development cycle—design, implementation, testing, and operations—using Java/Kotlin/C#, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
Java Backend Developer
Builds and maintains Java 17/Spring Boot applications — REST and SOAP/XML APIs, microservices, and event-driven integrations with Kafka or Solace — for PPM Coachers, a project-management training, consulting, and team-augmentation firm in Portugal. Hybrid work model.
Engenheiro | Backend Developer
Backend developer at CEiiA in Portugal building cloud-based software in Java: applying CI strategies and automated testing, maintaining development documentation, and contributing to product design and architecture for secure, scalable, high-performance systems.
Backend Developer
Backend developer at 27N, a Shopify Select Partner agency in Lisbon, building and maintaining APIs, data models, webhooks, queues and integrations between Shopify and external systems (ERP, logistics, payments, CRM). Hybrid role in Lisbon using Node.js or Python, REST/GraphQL and SQL/NoSQL databases.
Backend Developer
Backend Developer in Vodafone's Network Operations digital innovation team, building scalable back-end services, APIs, microservices and system integrations for web/mobile products supporting European network operations. Core stack: Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, cloud, containers and CI/CD; hybrid work based in Portugal.
Backend Developer
Balanças Marques, a weighing-equipment maker with in-house software development, is hiring a Backend Developer in Portugal to help define product architecture and build backend services alongside frontend developers. The role calls for AWS, microservices, Docker, Agile experience, and 5+ years in backend development.
Golang Backend Developer
Noesis is hiring a Golang Backend Developer in Portugal to develop and maintain backend services in a cloud-first AWS environment, covering code, infrastructure-as-code, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines through production. Core stack: Go, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL/Redis/DynamoDB, and event-driven tools like Kafka or SQS.
Junior Backend Developer
Junior backend developer at Outsoft in Portugal building server-side components in Java backed by relational and NoSQL databases. Day to day: writing readable, performant, secure code, participating in feature specification, and improving software quality and usability.