Job description
Why should you join dLocal?
dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest-growing, emerging markets.
By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen, in a flexible, remote-first dynamic culture with travel, health and learning benefits, among others. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000+ teammates from 30+ different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of people’s daily lives. We are builders, we never run from a challenge, we are customer-centric, and if this sounds like you, we know you will thrive in our team.
What will I be doing?
- Framework Ownership: Set the technical vision for our internal application framework stack, defining conventions, project archetypes, and lifecycle management for libraries and tooling.
- Platform Engineering: Design, build, and maintain core platform components (SDKs, shared services, CI/CD pipelines) in Golang and Java, enabling product teams to ship quality code quickly and safely.
- Architecture & Standards: Champion best practices in microservice design, domain-driven design, clean architecture, and twelve-factor principles; review and approve RFCs that impact how we deploy code company-wide.
- DevEx Enablement: Create self-service developer actions, golden-path templates, and automated guardrails (linting, static analysis, vulnerability scanning) to streamline the developer experience.
- Cloud & IaC Expertise: Provision and manage AWS resources with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK), implement GitOps workflows, and drive adoption of Kubernetes-native patterns (Helm, Argo CD).
- Reliability Engineering: Embed observability (metrics, traces, logs) by default; standardize SLIs/SLOs and incident-management playbooks across services.
- Security by Design: Integrate secure-coding guidelines, secrets-management, least-privilege IAM, SBOM generation, and supply-chain-security checks into the SDLC.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Serve as technical referent for a multi-disciplinary platform team; coach engineers, run architecture reviews, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Security, and Infrastructure teams to align roadmaps, manage technical debt, and ensure platform capabilities meet business needs.
- Continuous Improvement: Track industry trends, evaluate new technologies (service mesh, eBPF, WASM, etc.), and pilot innovations that keep our platform ahead of scale and compliance demands.
What skills do I need?
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend or platform systems, with deep proficiency in Golang and Java.
- Proven track record designing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.).
- Hands-on mastery of containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), Infra-as-Code (Terraform/CDK), and modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD).
- Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and REST/gRPC API design.
- Experience creating reusable SDKs, libraries, or internal developer platforms.
- Solid grasp of software-security fundamentals: OWASP, IAM, secrets management, dependency-scanning, SBOMs.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and performance-profiling tools.
- Good communication skills in English; able to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Thorough understanding of agile methodologies, trunk-based development, and continuous delivery principles.
Ready to define the future of dLocal’s platform and empower every engineering squad to build, ship, and run world-class payments software?
Apply now and let’s build the backbone of our global fintech together!
What do we offer?
Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you:
- Remote work: work from anywhere or one of our offices around the globe!*
- Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we 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: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
- Learning & development: get access to a Premium Coursera subscription.
- Language classes: we provide free English, Spanish, or Portuguese classes.
- Social budget: you’ll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!
- dLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team? We’ve got your back!
*For people based in Montevideo (Uruguay) applying to non-IT roles, 55% monthly attendance to the office is required
What happens after you apply?
Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
Also, you can check out our webpage, Linkedin, Instagram, and Youtube for more about dLocal!
