Senior Java Developer

Tieto Tech Consulting (MentorMate from 2001 to 2026) provides design-led, data-centric, and AI-powered digital engineering & consulting services to enterprises worldwide. With a strong heritage of Nordic quality, local presence, and global-scale operations, we are backed by 8,500+ IT professionals. Our clients trust us for advanced data and analytics skills, top industry-specific expertise, specialized software R&D, and the capabilities of a multinational team. We are part of Tieto, a leading technology company with an annual revenue of approximately EUR 2bn.

Tieto Tech Consulting’s team in Bulgaria consists of 500+ professionals specializing in the development of tailored digital solutions in diverse industries

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join a global digital health product environment focused on improving clinical trial experiences for patients, healthcare professionals, and regulators. The ideal candidate is an experienced engineer who can contribute hands-on, quickly understand complex product domains, collaborate effectively with distributed teams, and help maintain high engineering quality in a regulated healthcare technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend and full-stack solutions in a modern product engineering environment.
• Build and extend backend-for-frontend services and configuration layers.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs and support integration between services and product components.
• Work with database modelling.
• Contribute to microservice-based architecture and event-driven solutions, including technologies such as Kafka.
• Support development, deployment, and maintenance of services running in cloud/containerized environments such as Kubernetes.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly as part of the development process, ensuring AI-generated output is reviewed, tested, and owned with the same rigor as hand-written code.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Java development and enterprise-level applications
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Java, or similar modern programming languages.
• Solid experience with backend development and full-stack engineering.
• Good understanding of microservices architecture and integration patterns.
• Strong database modelling skills; experience with MongoDB or other document databases is highly valuable.
• Experience working with complex systems, large codebases, and evolving product environments.
• Good understanding of automated testing and quality-focused engineering practices.
• Ability to contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, feature refinement, and solution design.
• Strong ownership mindset with attention to code quality, maintainability, and long-term product sustainability.

A significant advantage would be

• Hands-on experience with NodeJS, Express, REST APIs, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging/event-streaming technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized application environments.
• Exposure to AWS or other cloud platforms.

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