Senior Software Engineer, dLocal
Technical Referent
Emerging markets payments platform
Posted today
Emerging markets payments platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
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 Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend or platform systems, with deep proficiency in Golang and Java
- Proven track record designing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Hands-on mastery of containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), Infra-as-Code (Terraform/CDK), and modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD)
- Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and REST/gRPC API design
- Experience creating reusable SDKs, libraries, or internal developer platforms
- Solid grasp of software-security fundamentals: OWASP, IAM, secrets management, dependency-scanning, SBOMs
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and performance-profiling tools
- Good communication skills in English; able to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Thorough understanding of agile methodologies, trunk-based development, and continuous delivery principles
What the job involves
- Framework Ownership: Set the technical vision for our internal application framework stack, defining conventions, project archetypes, and lifecycle management for libraries and tooling
- Platform Engineering: Design, build, and maintain core platform components (SDKs, shared services, CI/CD pipelines) in Golang and Java, enabling product teams to ship quality code quickly and safely
- Architecture & Standards: Champion best practices in microservice design, domain-driven design, clean architecture, and twelve-factor principles; review and approve RFCs that impact how we deploy code company-wide
- DevEx Enablement: Create self-service developer actions, golden-path templates, and automated guardrails (linting, static analysis, vulnerability scanning) to streamline the developer experience
- Cloud & IaC Expertise: Provision and manage AWS resources with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK), implement GitOps workflows, and drive adoption of Kubernetes-native patterns (Helm, Argo CD)
- Reliability Engineering: Embed observability (metrics, traces, logs) by default; standardize SLIs/SLOs and incident-management playbooks across services
- Security by Design: Integrate secure-coding guidelines, secrets-management, least-privilege IAM, SBOM generation, and supply-chain-security checks into the SDLC
- Mentorship & Leadership: Serve as technical referent for a multi-disciplinary platform team; coach engineers, run architecture reviews, and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Security, and Infrastructure teams to align roadmaps, manage technical debt, and ensure platform capabilities meet business needs
- Continuous Improvement: Track industry trends, evaluate new technologies (service mesh, eBPF, WASM, etc.), and pilot innovations that keep our platform ahead of scale and compliance demands
Application process
- 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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