Software Engineering Leader, dLocal
Emerging markets payments platform
Open for applications
Emerging markets payments platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable global merchants to connect seamlessly with billions of emerging market users.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading remote development teams
- Strong hands-on Software Development background
- Expertise in Java or Go, plus JavaScript and TypeScript for frontend
- Extensive experience building scalable applications
- Proficient with monitoring tools like NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, and distributed logs (e.g., ELK)
- Experience working with critical applications (performance, scalability, security)
- Experience with microservices architecture and relational databases
- Knowledge of AWS and NoSQL (desirable)
- Test-driven development and strong understanding of version control (Git)
- Strong documentation skills
- Upper-intermediate English (Spanish is a plus)
What the job involves
- As our Software Engineering Leader you'll be in charge of leading a software development team and the applications that team owns. Your team will build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
- You will be leading a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications with big customers like Netflix, Amazon, Nike, Facebook & more! The different members of the team will report directly to you and you will be involved in helping develop their careers within the company
- You'll be responsible for week-to-week planning of your team and keeping each member accountable
- As a tech lead, part of your role is to be a people manager - It's vital you dedicate time to managing your team members
- You'll be expected to drive technical direction in projects and assure they meet scalability and robustness requirements
- You'll be hands-on on projects, getting deep into code and project architecture
- You'll be responsible for hiring for your team
- You'll be responsible for communicating and planning between other teams
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, innovative 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 being founded in 2016, the company has expanded across Uruguay, the USA, Israel, Brazil and Europe, powering growth in emerging economies in LATAM, APAC, the Middle East and North Africa. The company has seen significant growth while remaining confident and committed to its original mission. A recent development was its licensing by Brazil’s Central Bank as a payments institution, which means it can accept deposits from the public, manage e-wallets, and participate directly in Brazil’s payments systems.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
Articles
Leadership
Sergio Fogel
(CSO)Co-founded multiple companies, such as AstroPay, and is an Official Member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Sebastian Kanovich
(CEO)Was General Manager at AstroPay before becoming CEO for 2 years.
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