Quality Assurance Leader, dLocal
Cloud Platform
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
- 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Engineering roles, with at least 2 in a technical or people leadership position
- Strong background in testing distributed systems, cloud-native applications, or platform tools
- Proficiency with automated testing frameworks on multiple languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar)
- Experience integrating quality into DevOps and SRE practices (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, Alerts)
- Metrics-driven mindset – measure before build
- Strong communication and collaboration skills – you’ll influence and support engineers across multiple verticals, including the development of your teammates
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, globally distributed environments
- Fluent English is a must
Desirable
- Cloud experience, especially AWS and EKS (Kubernetes) based workloads
- Performance monitoring experience, particularly in large-scale distributed environments
What the job involves
- We're looking for a QA Lead to establish and drive a centralized QA function within our Cloud Platform department
- You will be instrumental in defining, testing strategies, quality standards, and engineering excellence practices that will be adopted across all development teams at dLocal
- This is initially a hands-on leadership role designed for someone who is as comfortable designing and creating custom test frameworks and tools as they are building culture and cross-team collaboration
- You’ll work closely with SREs, Security, and Developer Experience teams to ensure that every layer of our platform is tested, observable, and trusted
- Build and lead a centralized QA team focused on driving platform-wide quality practices and capabilities
- Redefine and monitor key quality KPIs, including, but not limited to Change Failure Rate (CFR), Escaped Defect Rate, and Deployment Validation Time
- Own, maintain and develop our E2E test case management tools
- Design, develop, and maintain custom test frameworks, reusable tooling, and test automation pipelines
- Influence cross-team quality practices by driving adoption of shared tools, code standards, and documentation
- Support incident reviews and reliability assessments with a quality-first mindset
- Influence a culture of accountability, observability, and resilience through test coverage and continuous verification
- Recruit, manage, mentor and inspire a high-impact QA Team
- Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our QA practices remain cutting-edge
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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