Senior Java Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior JAVA Developer

Duration: 02/02/2026-15/07/2027

Location: Brussels OR Ghent OR Belgium

Mode: Hybrid

Language: English, Dutch

Work Regime: Full time

Job Description -

MAGDA is looking to expand its team with a developer! Are you interested and want to know what we're looking for?

You're a team player with strong communication skills. You're able to explain your ideas and perspectives to your colleagues, but are also open to adapting these perspectives based on feedback.

You're eager to learn and are eager to explore better methodologies, not just the latest framework hypes.

As a developer, you'll work in a development squad. Within this squad, together with other teams, you'll be responsible for expanding MAGDA's service offerings with new services and features, as well as managing and maintaining the existing portfolio.

Sample tasks

building and further developing new services

resolving defects in the services

implementing changes to the services

adding new functionalities

participating in projects for optimization and modernization

Skills:

Demonstrable experience in developing JAVA-based applications

Demonstrable education with certification or equivalent through experience in programming languages and environments such as Java/J2EE, ...

Demonstrable experience in leading a development team and coaching developers.

Demonstrable experience in being able to execute programming assignments very smoothly: coding, testing and debugging.

Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Agile development methodology, in which a leadership role can be taken.

Language requirement: Dutch at European CEFR - level C2

Required Skills:

1. Demonstrable experience in developing JAVA-based applications-Must Have(Senior 5 years)
2. Demonstrable experience with REST and SOAP-Must Have(Senior 5 years)
3. Demonstrable experience with Spring framework-Must Have(Intermediate 3 years)
4. Demonstrable training with certification or equivalent experience in programming languages and environments such as Java/J2EE, etc-Must Have-Yes/NO
5. Demonstrable experience (practical) with Organization, Accurate, Analytical-Should Have-Yes/NO
6. Demonstrable experience in leading a development team and coaching developers-Should Have-Yes/NO
7. Demonstrable experience in being able to carry out programming assignments very smoothly: coding, testing and debugging-Should Have-Yes/NO
8. Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Agile development methodologies, with the ability to take a leading role-Should Have-Yes/NO
9. Demonstrable knowledge of authentication/authorization protocols (WSS, SAML & Oauth/OpenID)-Should Have-Yes/NO
10. Demonstrable knowledge of Clean coding-Should Have-Yes/NO
11. Demonstrable knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes-Should Have-Yes/NO
12. Demonstrable knowledge of Kafka-Should Have-Yes/NO
13. Demonstrable knowledge of Scrum, JIRA or Confluence-Should Have-Yes/NO
14. Higher education (Master or Bachelor) with a technical/engineering background or equivalent through experience with ICT technology for which expertise is required-Should Have-Yes/NO
15. Demonstrable knowledge of Spring batch & Camel frameworks-Nice to Have
16. Language requirement: Dutch at European CEFR - level C2-Must Have-Yes/NO