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Senior Backend Engineer —

Shakers | lisbon, Portugal | Posted May 30, 2026

Position Overview

Senior Backend Engineer — Founding Team (Java / Spring Boot / GCP) — Freelance via Shakers


We are partnering with a fast-moving company at the intersection of healthcare and AI to hire a Senior Backend Engineer as a founding team member of their microservices platform on GCP.

This is not a traditional corporate role. You will own services end-to-end, take part in critical system design decisions, and operate inside a fully AI-driven development workflow (planning → generation → review → refinement).


What you will do

  • Design, build and operate scalable backend services with Java + Spring Boot in a microservices architecture using Kafka and Redis.
  • Build and evolve APIs, data models and workflows;
    deploy on GCP with Kubernetes.
  • Guide an AI-powered development process: structured planning, generating, reviewing and refining AI-produ...

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