The Role
Lead the Rust engineering practice at dLocal, designing and implementing high-performance services, establishing standards, and mentoring teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
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. 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's the opportunity?
We are building high-throughput, low-latency financial infrastructure in Rust for core payment processing services. This role is focused on backend distributed systems, cloud-native services, and performance-critical APIs.
What you'll be doing:
- Design and lead the architecture of high-throughput, low-latency payment services written in Rust, handling thousands of requests per second with strict SLA requirements.
- Own concurrency models, async execution strategies (Tokio-based systems), memory safety trade-offs, and performance profiling at the systems level.
- Define service boundaries, event-driven contracts, and resilience patterns (idempotency, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers).
- Establish Rust engineering standards across the organization: crate selection policies, dependency management, error handling patterns, testing strategy, and production hardening.
- Partner with Platform and SRE teams to design observability, structured logging, tracing, and metrics using OpenTelemetry.
- Lead performance benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning for Rust-based services.
What skills you'll need:
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- 4+ years of professional Rust experience in production backend systems (not academic or hobby projects).
- Hire, mentor, and grow a Rust-focused engineering group.
- Deep understanding of systems design principles, memory management, and concurrency patterns.
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and idiomatic Rust code with a strong focus on safety and performance.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Solid experience with event-driven architecture design.
- Experience with modern observability practices and tooling adhering to OpenTelemetry standards.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- A collaborative mindset and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Optional but highly valued: Professional experience in Go or Java for building large-scale, cloud-native applications is a significant plus.
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:
- 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!
Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our 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.
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 and Youtube for more about dLocal!
Top Skills
AWS
Opentelemetry
Rust
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The Company
What We Do
dLocal started with one goal – to close the payments innovation gap between global enterprise companies, and customers in emerging economies. We have over 900 payment methods, in more than 40 countries.
With the ability to accept local payment methods and facilitate cross-border fund settlement worldwide, our merchants reach billions of underserved consumers in the high-growth markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. dLocal offers the ideal payment solutions for global commerce:
Payins: Accept local payment methods
Payouts: Compliantly send funds cross-border
Defense Suite: Manage fraud effectively
dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution
Local Issuing: Localize payments for your gig-economy workers, suppliers, and partners
