Senior Data Engineer, dLocal
Emerging markets payments platform
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Emerging markets payments platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable global merchants to connect seamlessly with billions of emerging market users.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, or related technical field
- Proven experience in data engineering or backend software development, ideally in cloud-native environments
- Deep expertise in Python and SQL
- Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Able to work autonomously and collaboratively, balancing hands-on work with technical leadership
Desirable
- Experience designing and maintaining DAGs with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Familiarity with modern data formats and table formats (e.g., Parquet, Delta Lake, Iceberg)
- Master’s degree in a relevant field
- Prior experience mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions at scale
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be a strategic professional shaping the foundation of our data platform
- You’ll design and evolve scalable infrastructure, enable data governance at scale, and ensure our data assets are clean, reliable, and accessible
- You will be a go-to expert, mentoring other engineers and influencing architectural decisions across the company
- Architect and evolve scalable infrastructure to ingest, process, and serve large volumes of data efficiently
- Lead improvements to existing frameworks and pipelines to ensure performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Establish and maintain robust data governance practices that empower cross-functional teams to access and trust data
- Transform raw datasets into clean, usable formats for analytics, modeling, and reporting
- Investigate and resolve complex data issues, ensuring data accuracy and system resilience
- Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation, with a strong focus on reproducibility and observability
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously raise the bar on our engineering practices
Our take
It is clearly evident that there is a massive payments gap between developed countries and emerging economies, with consumers in many countries having little or no access to modern payment options. dLocal was established in Uruguay to address this gap, which it aims to close not only for its neighbouring countries but across the globe.
Through its unique "One dLocal" concept (one direct API, one platform, and one contract), global companies can accept payments, send pay-outs and settle funds globally without separately managing pay-in and pay-out processors. The company also supplies a defense suite and local issuing for virtual and physical pre-paid cards in Latin America, as well as tools for building payments infrastructure for platforms and marketplaces.
Since founding, the company has expanded across Uruguay, the USA, Israel, Brazil and Europe. The company has seen significant growth while remaining confident and committed to its original mission. A notable achievement is dLocal becoming a certified Payment Initiation Service Provider in Brazil, which means it can eliminate unnecessary steps for users in the region.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Sep 2020
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $357m
Company HQ
Tres Cruces, Montevideo, Montevideo Department
Leadership
Sergio Fogel
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-founded multiple companies, such as AstroPay, and is an Official Member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Pedro Arnt
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at Allegro who advises at several firms. Previously EVP and CFO at MercadoLibre.com.
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