Your mission is to enable product and engineering teams to take features from idea to production in a reliable, performant and observable way. You will own the technical direction of our Java stack, define best practices and architectural patterns, and help the team scale its impact as traffic, complexity and business demands grow.
This is a hands-on coding and architecture role: you will regularly design and implement key components yourself, review critical code paths and guide engineers through complex technical decisions, rather than working only at a high level.
A core part of this role is to leverage the modern Java ecosystem — from the JVM and tooling to observability and CI/CD — to automate and standardize how we ship backend and platform services.
You will work side by side with product engineers, platform teams and architects to make our developer experience fast, safe and efficient, and you will deeply influence how every Java service and platform component is designed, implemented, tested, deployed and operated in production.
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 mainly in Java, enabling product teams to ship quality code quickly and safely.
Architecture & Standards: Champion best practices, standards, and review and approve RFCs that impact how we deploy code company-wide. For example: Observability, security, and performance best practices.
Cloud & IaC: Provision and manage AWS resources with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK).
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: Work 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 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 Java. Golang professional experience is a plus.
Good communication skills in English; able to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven track record designing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.).
Hands-on knowledge 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 API design.
Experience creating reusable SDKs, libraries, or internal developer platforms.
Enable and scale the organization’s capabilities to strategically align Java development practices with AI-driven tooling and workflows, maximizing engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
Familiarity with observability stacks, agile methodologies, and software security fundamentals.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years professional experience building large-scale backend or platform systems
- Deep proficiency in Java (JVM ecosystem)
- Professional experience with Golang
- Designing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB)
- Hands-on knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CDK)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD)
- Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and REST API design
- Experience creating reusable SDKs, libraries, or internal developer platforms
- Good communication skills in English
- Familiarity with observability stacks, agile methodologies, and software security fundamentals
- Ability to enable and scale Java development practices with AI-driven tooling and workflows
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
