Staff Engineer - Payments Performance

dLocal is the financial infrastructure powering global commerce in the world's fastest-growing markets. We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer to join our Payments Performance team. This team is focused on optimizing payment performance across multiple dimensions: improving conversion rates, maximizing take rate, and keeping fraud and operational costs under control while ensuring compliance. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and evolving the systems that power critical areas such as payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design robust, scalable, and high-performance systems.

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.

Requirements

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 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.

Nice to have

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP (desired)

Benefits

Tailored benefits for each country; Flexibility in how you work: flexible schedules and self-managed focus time combined with in-person connection in collaboration hubs; Fintech industry: dynamic and ever-evolving environment; Referral bonus program: refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded; Work From Anywhere: Team members can work while traveling for up to 3 months every year.