Staff Engineer, Payments Performance (Remote & Flexible)

dLocal; Tandil; On-site; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Referral bonus

Work from Anywhere

Job summary

dLocal is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Payments Performance team to optimize payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection at scale. You will design and evolve high-performance Java systems and lead architecture decisions across a global payments platform.

Join a cross-functional environment with cloud and telemetry tooling, shaping reliability, performance, and cost while collaborating with product and tech leaders to drive impact in 60+ markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional Java experience.
• Strong Java application development and software architecture.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles and patterns.
• Ability to write clean, efficient code.
• Experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms.
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
• Event-driven architecture experience.
• High-level project management skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork.
• English proficiency at upper-intermediate level.
• Familiar with SDLC and telemetry tooling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology leaders to translate goals into technical solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java applications.
• Lead the technical architecture of Java-based projects.
• Create scalable architecture for Java applications.
• Optimize performance via code and query improvements.
• Troubleshoot bottlenecks to improve stability.
• Perform validation tests for flexibility and scalability.
• Conduct system performance tests and capacity planning.
• Generate detailed system reports and recommendations.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high standards.

Skills

Java

Java app development

Software architecture

Object-oriented design

Clean code

AWS

GCP

Spring

Hibernate

Event-driven

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelors in CS/SE

Tools

New Relic

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

ELK

Job description

dLocal is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Payments Performance team to optimize payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection at scale. You will design and evolve high-performance Java systems and lead architecture decisions across a global payments platform.

Join a cross-functional environment with cloud and telemetry tooling, shaping reliability, performance, and cost while collaborating with product and tech leaders to drive impact in 60+ markets.