Principal Engineer

  • Remote - Brazil

Remote

Software Development

Principal

Job description

Come and impact millions of Brazilians!!

Want to make a difference in the lives of millions of Brazilians? At RecargaPay, we create accessible and innovative financial solutions that transform the way people interact with money. Be part of this impactful and innovative journey, connecting people with opportunities that truly make a difference in their daily lives.

Our purpose is to deliver the best mobile payment experience for Brazilians, addressing real-world challenges with smart solutions like Pix Parcelado, while staying attentive to market trends and our customers’ needs. Here, we value collaboration, ownership, and a relentless pursuit of results, delivering excellence in every interaction.

If you’re looking to join a dynamic environment that challenges the status quo and puts people at the center of decision-making, RecargaPay is the perfect place for you to grow, co-create, and make a difference!

Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact, scalable solutions for the company’s backend infrastructure. You will tackle complex engineering challenges and take ownership of key technical projects that drive innovation and excellence across our systems. In a fast-paced, evolving environment, you will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction and ensuring the robustness and reliability of our services.

  • Defines and guides medium- and long-term technical and architectural strategies, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals. Leads architectural transformations, technological modernization, and restructuring of critical systems, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and technical excellence.

  • Acts as a key reference in complex technical decisions, providing guidance to the Engineering Chapter and promoting high standards of quality and performance. Leads large-scale projects, ensuring successful delivery and supporting growth and innovation strategies.

  • Collaborates with executive leadership to shape the organization’s technological direction, bridging business vision with technical execution. Identifies and implements new tools, methodologies, and frameworks that increase organizational efficiency and foster cross-team collaboration.

  • Mentors senior engineers and technical leaders, cultivating a culture of technical excellence. Drives the adoption of innovative technologies that position the company as a market reference and actively participates in benchmarking to keep the organization updated on industry trends.

  • Experience hands-on engineering roles;

  • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject;

  • Experience dealing with complex domains with medium/high complexity;

  • A solid understanding of how web applications work, including security, session management, and best development practices;

  • Knowledge of relational database systems and Object Oriented Programming;

  • Knowledge in Domain Driven Design. Knowing Microservice Architecture is a plus;

  • Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques;

  • Proven ability to design complex distributed applications built for high performance and throughput while being scalable and reliable;

  • Development using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka and AWS;

  • Experience in Python is a plus;

  • Experience with asynchronous programming;

  • Demonstrated experience profiling and performance tuning Java applications, and using monitoring tools for production application monitoring.

Process Stages

HR Interview

Our first contact will be a casual conversation to learn about you, your career journey, and align expectations. We’ll conduct a brief technical assessment and answer your questions about the role, our culture, and what makes us unique. We want you to get to know us better too! 💙🩵🧡💛

Assessment (skills mapping)

We use an evaluation tool to map your work style and how you align with our culture. This step helps us understand how your skills can enhance our solutions. 🤓

Technical Assessment

Now it’s time to showcase your technical talent! In this step, you’ll solve technical cases and have a discussion with our engineering team. We’ll dive into your decisions, strategies, and how you design scalable and robust solutions. Beyond evaluation, we want to exchange ideas and explore how your solutions can impact RecargaPay! 🔎

Conversation with Leadership

Here, you’ll meet the squad leader to understand the position’s challenges, discuss the team’s daily activities, and evaluate alignment between our goals, culture, and your career aspirations. This will be an open space to align expectations and ensure RecargaPay is a place where you can grow and make a difference. 🫡

Offer

If we’ve made it this far together, we’d be thrilled to invite you to join our team! You’ll receive a detailed proposal with all the information about the role, benefits, and the impact you’ll have with us. We can’t wait to welcome you! 💼🥳

Note: There may be an additional step if specific alignments are needed.

  • Competitive and market-aligned salary.
  • Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!
  • Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app.
  • Health and dental plans with no co-pay.
  • Life insurance.
  • Flexible meal allowance (via Flash).
  • TotalPass membership to take care of your health.
  • Spanish or Portuguese classes.

Diversity & Inclusion at RecargaPay

At RecargaPay, you’ll have the freedom to be who you are because we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us more creative and stronger. Here, everyone is welcome to express themselves authentically. We value the richness of each journey and the multiple ways of seeing the world, without distinctions of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, or any other characteristic that makes us unique.

About the use of your Data By sharing your resume with us, you authorize the use of your data for analysis during the selection process and possibly for other opportunities within the RecargaPay group. You can request the update or deletion of your information at any time, in accordance with LGPD (General Data Protection Law).

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