About this role
We are hiring in Latin America!
🟢 At Dev.Pro, a US-based outsourced software development company, we're looking for contractors to join our global team of IT professionals helping tech companies scale their business through software engineering expertise. Operating as a remote-first company, our experts work across 55+ countries on five continents, giving us the flexibility and skillset to deliver high-quality engineering for projects of any size or complexity.
We invite a Senior Java Software Engineer with strong Oracle expertise to join a large-scale platform modernization initiative. You’ll work on a project that involves consolidating multiple platforms around Oracle, designing the database schema for a new application, and supporting a future MySQL-to-Oracle migration. In this role, you'll combine hands-on Java development with advanced database engineering and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable solutions.
🟩 What's in it for you:
- Contribute to a large-scale platform modernization initiative that includes a future MySQL-to-Oracle migration
- Solve complex technical problems across application and database layers, combining hands-on Java backend development with advanced Oracle database engineering
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the performance and reliability of a business-critical platform serving 100k users
✅ Is that you?
- 5+ years of experience building, debugging, and optimizing scalable Java backend applications
- Strong proficiency in Java 8–17, object-oriented design, design patterns, multithreading, and concurrency
- Hands-on Oracle development experience in production, with strong knowledge of database internals (indexing, query optimization, partitioning, replication, and transaction behavior)
- Advanced SQL skills, including performance troubleshooting
- Experience with production database operations (backup/restore, high availability, disaster recovery, failover), including executing changes with minimal downtime
- Experience writing unit tests with JUnit and Mockito
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and Kubernetes or similar orchestration tools
- Hands-on Linux/Unix experience and scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Ability to work independently, take ownership of technical tasks, and proactively identify and resolve blockers
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional Scrum teams and leading technical discussions
- Upper-Intermediate+ English level
Desirable:
- Hands-on Oracle DBA experience in production
- Experience with major Oracle version upgrades or large-scale database migrations
- Oracle certification
- Experience with Groovy and Gradle
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
🧩Key responsibilities and your contribution
In this role, you'll combine Java backend development with Oracle database engineering, troubleshooting production issues, improving performance, and supporting migration activities.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java backend applications
- Design the Oracle database storage schema for a new application
- Support the planning and execution of a future MySQL-to-Oracle migration
- Develop and optimize SQL queries to improve database performance
- Troubleshoot complex application and database issues in production environments
- Support production database operations and implement changes with minimal downtime
- Write and maintain unit tests using JUnit and Mockito
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical design and implementation decisions
- Create and maintain technical documentation for relevant project activities
Our next steps:
✅ Submit a CV in English — ✅ Intro call with a Recruiter — ✅ Internal interview — ✅ Offer
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