Back to his native state, he made his senior debut with Angra dos Reis and played for Duque de Caxias before joining São José-MA for the 2022 season.
[2] Promoted to the first team for the 2023 season, he renewed his contract with Bota until 2025 on 10 April 2023,[3] and made his debut with the main squad ten days later, coming on as a second-half substitute for Tiquinho Soares in a 4–0 Copa Sudamericana home routing of Universidad César Vallejo.
Seven days after that, he scored his first goal for the club, netting the second in a 2–0 win over Ypiranga-RS also at the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, for the year's Copa do Brasil.
[1][4] Janderson made his Série A debut on 11 May 2023, again replacing Tiquinho in a 3–0 home win over Corinthians.
On 19 April 2024, Janderson signed a contract with fellow top tier side Vitória until December 2027, for a rumoured fee of R$ 5 million.