Staff Engineer, dLocal
2 days a week in office
Emerging markets payments platform
Open for applications
Emerging markets payments platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2 days a week in office
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 software engineering or computer science
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in Java development
- Solid experience in Java application development and software architecture
- In-depth knowledge of object-oriented design principles and design patterns
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and readable code
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP (desired)
- Experience with Java development frameworks like Spring and Hibernate
- Event-driven architecture design experience
- High-level project management skills
- Ability to solve complex software system issues
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Being a team player, enjoying working with your own team and collaborating with other teams in the organization
- Upper-intermediate written and spoken English proficiency
- Well-versed in the software development life cycle
- Experience with monitoring applications in production using telemetry tooling such as Newrelic, Datadog, Grafana + Prometheus, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, distributed logs like ELK, etc
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer to join our Payments Performance team
- This team is focused on optimizing payment performance across multiple dimensions: improving conversion rates, maximizing take rate, and keeping fraud and operational costs under control while ensuring compliance
- As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and evolving the systems that power critical areas such as payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection
- This includes building and scaling systems that intelligently decide which processors handle each transaction, developing real-time fraud decisioning tools based on data and machine learning models, and enabling proactive detection of anomalies across business and operational metrics
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design robust, scalable, and high-performance systems, ensuring they meet both current and future needs
- Your expertise in system design and architecture will be essential in driving technical decisions, improving our platform, and helping the team navigate complex challenges
- This role requires a strong strategic mindset and the ability to understand the broader impact of technical decisions, as you’ll be contributing directly to the evolution of one of the most critical areas of our platform
- Collaborate with technology leaders and the product team to understand department goals and requirements, translating them into technical solutions
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java applications and systems aligned with business objectives
- Lead the technical architecture and design of Java-based projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Create scalable architecture systems for Java-based applications, considering future growth and evolving business needs
- Optimize application performance by identifying and addressing areas for improvement, such as code optimization, database query optimization, and resource utilization
- Troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks to enhance application stability and performance
- Perform validation tests to ensure the flexibility and scalability of the Java environment, making necessary adjustments as needed
- Conduct comprehensive system performance tests to identify bottlenecks, assess system capacity, and fine-tune application performance
- Generate and present detailed systems reports, including performance metrics, bottlenecks, and recommendations for improvements
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high standards of software development, ensuring code quality, readability, and adherence to best practices
Application process
- What happens after you apply?
- Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
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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