About Remote Labs SRL

Remote Labs SRL is a Romanian education and training company, founded in 2019, that makes hands-on technical training available to anyone, anywhere. We connect real laboratory equipment, servers and test devices to the internet, so students, professionals and company teams can practise on real infrastructure from wherever they are. Around these remote labs we run interactive courses, practical workshops, mentoring and certifications in IT and engineering, helping schools and businesses train people without the cost of building and maintaining physical labs.

About the Role

You will work as a Senior Java Developer building and maintaining Java 17+ applications with Spring Boot in a microservices environment. The role supports projects for European clients and is based remotely from Colombia. You will build Java backend services for our client projects and our remote-lab platform, working full-time with us from Colombia as part of a distributed team.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Java 17+ applications for European clients.

• Build and maintain services using Spring Boot.

• Design and implement solutions within a microservices architecture.

• Contribute senior-level technical judgement to development work.

• Work remotely from Colombia while supporting client projects.

• Design and build microservices with Java 17+ and Spring Boot.

• Own features end to end, from technical design to production.

• Write high-quality tests and review code from other engineers.

• Improve performance, reliability and security of services.

• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers in the team.

Requirements

• Experience working with Java 17+.

• Experience using Spring Boot.

• Experience working with microservices.

• Ability to contribute at a senior level in Java development.

• Based in Colombia and able to work remotely.

• 6+ years of professional Java development experience.

• Strong experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices.

• Good knowledge of SQL databases and messaging systems such as Kafka.

• Experience with Docker, CI/CD and cloud platforms.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes.

• Experience working for European clients.

• Experience with event-driven architectures.

How You Will Work

• Full-time freelance (B2B) engagement.

• Remote, open to candidates based in Colombia, with working hours that overlap with Central European Time.

• Remote Labs SRL does not offer visa sponsorship or visa support.

Skills we're looking for

Technical skills

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Microservices Architecture
• REST API
• SQL

Interpersonal skills

• Work Autonomy
• Mentoring
• Stakeholder Management
• Teamwork
• Resilience