Staff Engineer - Payments Performance

dLocal; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible schedules

Referral bonus program

Social budget

dLocal Houses for coworking

Descripción de la vacante

dLocal is seeking a highly skilled Staff Engineer to join our Payments Performance team in Barcelona. In this role, you will optimize payment performance across multiple dimensions, including improving conversion rates and managing operational costs.

Your responsibilities will include designing and maintaining Java applications, leading technical architecture, and collaborating with teams to achieve business objectives. The ideal candidate has strong Java development experience and a passion for fintech.

We offer flexible schedules, a dynamic work environment, and various benefits including a referral bonus program and dLocal Houses for remote work.

Formación

• 7+ years of professional experience in Java development.
• Solid experience in Java application development and software architecture.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with teams to create technical solutions based on goals.
• Design and maintain high-quality Java applications.
• Troubleshoot system bottlenecks and enhance application performance.

Conocimientos

Java development

Software architecture

Object-oriented design

AWS or GCP

Spring and Hibernate

Event-driven architecture

Project management

Telemetry tooling

English proficiency

Team collaboration

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science

Herramientas

Newrelic

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

ELK

Descripción del empleo

Staff Engineer – Payments Performance

We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer to join our Payments Performance team. This team focuses on optimizing payment performance across multiple dimensions: improving conversion rates, maximizing take rate, and keeping fraud and operational costs under control while ensuring compliance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology leaders and the product team to understand department goals and requirements, translating them into technical solutions
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java applications and systems aligned with business objectives
• Lead the technical architecture and design of Java-based projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Create scalable architecture systems for Java-based applications, considering future growth and evolving business needs
• Optimize application performance by identifying and addressing areas for improvement, such as code optimization, database query optimization, and resource utilization
• Troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks to enhance application stability and performance
• Perform validation tests to ensure the flexibility and scalability of the Java environment, making necessary adjustments as needed
• Conduct comprehensive system performance tests to identify bottlenecks, assess system capacity, and fine-tune application performance
• Generate and present detailed systems reports, including performance metrics, bottlenecks, and recommendations for improvements
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high standards of software development, ensuring code quality, readability, and adherence to best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in Java development
• Solid experience in Java application development and software architecture
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented design principles and design patterns
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and readable code
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP (desired)
• Experience with Java development frameworks like Spring and Hibernate
• Event-driven architecture design experience
• High-level project management skills
• Ability to solve complex software system issues
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Being a team player, enjoying working with your own team and collaborating with other teams in the organization
• Upper-intermediate written and spoken English proficiency
• Well-versed in the software development life cycle
• Experience with monitoring applications in production using telemetry tooling such as Newrelic, Datadog, Grafana + Prometheus, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, distributed logs like ELK, etc.

Benefits

• Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and are driven by performance
• Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity
• Referral bonus program: internal talents can refer ideal candidates and get rewarded
• Social budget: monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections
• dLocal Houses: option to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team

Work style

We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. Teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs.