Staff Java Engineer - Payments Platform Architect

dLocal; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 135,892,000 - 181,190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Work From Anywhere up to 3 months/year

Fintech industry exposure

Referral bonus program

Job summary

dLocal is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Payments Performance team to optimize payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection. You will design and scale systems that handle high transaction volumes, achieve better conversion rates, and manage costs while ensuring compliance.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead architecture, drive technical decisions, and work with cross-functional teams to meet current and future platform needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional Java development experience.
• Strong knowledge of OO design principles and design patterns.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) is desirable.
• Ability to design scalable, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leaders and product teams to translate goals into technical solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java applications and systems.
• Lead technical architecture and design of Java projects for scalability and performance.
• Create scalable architectures for Java-based apps with future growth in mind.
• Optimize performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and improve stability.
• Conduct validation and performance tests on the Java environment.
• Generate detailed performance reports and actionable recommendations.
• Perform code reviews to maintain high standards and best practices.

Skills

Java architecture

OO design

Code quality

Team player

English proficiency

Cloud knowledge

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Spring

Hibernate

AWS

GCP

New Relic

Datadog

Grafana/Prometheus

Dynatrace

ELK

CloudWatch

Job description

dLocal is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Payments Performance team to optimize payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection. You will design and scale systems that handle high transaction volumes, achieve better conversion rates, and manage costs while ensuring compliance.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead architecture, drive technical decisions, and work with cross-functional teams to meet current and future platform needs.