Staff Engineer, Payments Platform Architect (Hybrid)

Nodi; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Fintech environment

Referral bonus

Work From Anywhere

Job summary

dLocal is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Payments Performance team, focusing on optimizing payment performance, conversion, take rate, and cost while ensuring compliance. You will design and evolve systems for routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection, building real-time decisioning tools and scalable architectures.

You will work with cross-functional teams to guide technical decisions and impact platform reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science.
• Minimum 7 years in Java development.
• Expert in Java platforms, Spring and Hibernate.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology leaders and the product team to translate goals 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 and database queries.
• Troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks to enhance stability and performance.
• Perform validation tests to ensure flexibility and scalability of the Java environment.
• Conduct system performance tests to identify bottlenecks and fine-tune performance.
• Generate and present detailed systems reports with metrics and recommendations.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high standards of software development.

Skills

Java

Java development

Software architecture

OO design

Clean code

Cloud platforms

Spring

Hibernate

English

SDLC

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science

Tools

Spring

Hibernate

AWS

GCP

New Relic

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

ELK

Job description

dLocal is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Payments Performance team, focusing on optimizing payment performance, conversion, take rate, and cost while ensuring compliance. You will design and evolve systems for routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection, building real-time decisioning tools and scalable architectures.

You will work with cross-functional teams to guide technical decisions and impact platform reliability and efficiency.