Software Engineering Technical Referent, dLocal
Node.js
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 Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend or platform systems, with deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript. Java professional experience is a plus
- Solid experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, or similar), including server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and client/server component patterns
- Good communication skills in English; able to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven track record designing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Hands-on knowledge of containerization & orchestration and modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD)
- Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and REST API design
- Familiarity with observability stacks, agile methodologies, and software security fundamentals
- Experience creating reusable SDKs, libraries, or internal developer platforms
- Enable and scale the organization’s capabilities to strategically align development practices with AI-driven tooling and workflows, maximizing engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity
- Experience with AI-Driven Tooling: Demonstrated history of leveraging AI/ML tools and generative AI in daily development workflows to automate tasks, improve code generation, perform intelligent testing, or enhance operational efficiency
What the job involves
- As a JavaScript/Node.js Technical Referent at dLocal, you will be the senior technical reference for how we design, build and evolve our Node.js services and JavaScript-based platforms and front-end applications
- Your mission is to enable product and engineering teams to take features from idea to production in a reliable, performant and observable way
- You will own the technical direction of our JavaScript/Node.js stack – from backend services to client-facing interfaces –, define best practices and architectural patterns, and help the team scale its impact as traffic, complexity and business demands grow
- A core part of this role is to use modern JavaScript tooling and platform capabilities — from Node.js runtimes and frameworks to front-end build systems, rendering strategies, , observability and CI/CD — to automate and standardize how we ship backend and full-stack services
- You will work side by side with product engineers, platform teams and architects to make our developer experience fast, safe and efficient
- This is a hands-on architecture and leadership role: you won't own a single product domain yourself, but you will deeply influence how every Node.js service, front-end application, and JavaScript-based component is designed, implemented, tested, deployed and operated in production
- Framework Ownership: Set the technical vision for our internal application framework stack – both server-side and client-side –, defining conventions, project archetypes, and lifecycle management for libraries and tooling
- Front-End Architecture: Define and evolve our front-end stack (React, Next.js, or successor frameworks), establishing patterns for server-side rendering, client-side rendering, and hybrid approaches that balance performance, SEO and developer experience
- Platform Engineering: Design, build, and maintain core platform components mainly in javascript and TypeScript, enabling product teams to ship quality code quickly and safely
- Architecture & Standards: Champion best practices, standards, and review and approve RFCs that impact how we deploy code company-wide. For example: Observability, security, and performance best practices
- 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: Work 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 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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