Software Engineering Technical Referent - RUST

Nodi; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

dLocal in Barcelona offers a hybrid workplace and is seeking a Senior Rust Architect to design and lead the architecture of high-throughput, low-latency payment services, handling thousands of requests per second with strict SLA.

You will own concurrency models, memory safety trade-offs, define service boundaries, and establish engineering standards across the organization while mentoring a Rust-focused team and collaborating with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building high-throughput distributed systems.
• 4+ years of production Rust experience.
• Ability to hire, mentor, and grow a Rust engineering team.
• Strong understanding of memory management and concurrency.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead architecture of high-throughput, low-latency Rust services.
• Own concurrency models and performance profiling.
• Define service boundaries and resilience patterns.
• Establish Rust engineering standards across the organization.
• Lead performance benchmarking and capacity planning.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Memory management

AWS

Leadership

English communication

Go

Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Tokio

Job description

Seniority Level 4: Specialist / Technical Referent / Team Lead

Workplace Hybrid

Department IT Core

Posted November 2, 2026

Interested in this role?

About dlocal

dLocal started with one goal – to close the payments innovation gap between global enterprise companies, and customers in emerging economies. We have over 1000 payment methods, in more than 60 countries.We are relentlessly focusing on serving our customers and solidifying our position as the preferred infrastructure solution for Global Merchants across Emerging Markets.With the ability to accept local payment methods and facilitate cross-border fund settlement worldwide, our merchants reach billions of underserved consumers in the high-growth markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. dLocal offers the ideal payment solutions for global commerce:

• Payins: Accept local payment methods


• Payouts: Compliantly send funds cross-borderdLocal for


• Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution


• Defense Suite: Manage fraud effectively

What you'll be doing

• Design and lead the architecture of high-throughput, low-latency payment services written in Rust, handling thousands of requests per second with strict SLA requirements.


• Own concurrency models, async execution strategies (Tokio-based systems), memory safety trade-offs, and performance profiling at the systems level.


• Define service boundaries, event-driven contracts, and resilience patterns (idempotency, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers).


• Establish Rust engineering standards across the organization: crate selection policies, dependency management, error handling patterns, testing strategy, and production hardening.


• Lead performance benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning for Rust-based services.

What skills you'll need

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.


• 4+ years of professional Rust experience in production backend systems (not academic or hobby projects).


• Hire, mentor, and grow a Rust-focused engineering group.


• Deep understanding of systems design principles, memory management, and concurrency patterns.


• Ability to write clean, efficient, and idiomatic Rust code with a strong focus on safety and performance.


• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.


• Solid experience with event-driven architecture design.


• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.


• A collaborative mindset and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• Optional but highly valued: Professional experience in Go or Java for building large-scale, cloud-native applications is a significant plus.