Staff Engineer – Issuing

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Hiring Remotely in São Paulo, BRA
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Payments • Software
The Role
Design and build systems for real-time transaction processing in a high-performance environment, with a focus on security and fault tolerance.
Summary Generated by Built In
At CloudWalk, we are building the core infrastructure behind our credit card operation — from authorization to clearing — handling real-world financial transactions at scale.
 
This is not a typical backend role.
 
You will work on systems where latency matters, correctness is critical, and failures have real impact.
 
The Role
You will design and build the systems that authorize, process, and reconcile transactions in real time — ensuring performance, correctness, and security at every step.
Our stack is heavily based on Rust, and we operate with full ownership of the issuing flow, including authorization, clearing, and ledgering.

What You'll Do

    • Build and operate high-performance services in Rust
    • Own critical paths in the issuing flow (authorization, clearing, ledger)
    • Design systems for low latency, high reliability, and fault tolerance
    • Debug complex production issues involving real money
    • Ensure system integrity and correctness across all transaction flows
    • Drive architecture decisions across teams

What We're Looking For

    • Strong experience with distributed systems
    • Solid understanding of concurrency, consistency, and fault tolerance
    • Experience with high-reliability systems (fintech, infra, etc) is a plus
    • Experience with Rust, or willingness to go deep into it
    • Hands-on mindset and strong debugging skills
     
    AI as a Multiplier
    We use AI as part of how we build.
    • Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and debugging
    • Improve engineering workflows using automation and agents
    • Increase team throughput without compromising quality
     
    Security by Design
    Security is not a separate layer — it is part of how we build systems.
    • Design systems that are secure by default
    • Handle sensitive financial data with strict guarantees
    • Ensure integrity and correctness across all transaction flows
    • Build systems where incorrect behavior is not acceptable

Why This Role

    • move real money
    • run under strict latency constraints
    • must be correct all the time
    • operate at real-world scale
     
    This is engineering where things actually matter.

The Future We See:
 
At CloudWalk, we envision a future where AI empowers every field to reach new heights:
• People teams leveraging AI to transform talent acquisition and employee development.
• Marketing professionals creating data-driven, AI-powered campaign strategies.
• Customer Success teams enhancing client experiences with intelligent solutions.
• Risk analysts combining human expertise with AI to navigate complexities.
• Designers collaborating with AI to push creative boundaries.
 
 

Skills Required

  • Strong experience with distributed systems
  • Solid understanding of concurrency, consistency, and fault tolerance
  • Experience with high-reliability systems (fintech, infra, etc)
  • Experience with Rust, or willingness to go deep into it
  • Strong debugging skills
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The Company
São Paulo, São Paulo
501 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

We are democratizing the payments industry in Brazil, by empowering entrepreneurs through technological, inclusive, and life-changing solutions. Based in Brazil, CloudWalk is a high-end global payment network built on modern technology and proprietary blockchain, focused in bringing a revolution to the payment ecosystem for small and medium-sized businesses. As a unicorn, the company has provided its customers with more than R$ 1 billion in savings by charging fair fees on its transactions and is now present in more than 300.000 businesses across 5.000 brazilian cities. With investors such as the Valor Capital Group, HIVE Ventures and Coatue, the company has already raised US$ 365.5 million in investments and R$3.4 billion in FDICs for anticipation of receivables in its network of financial solutions. In 2022, it was the only brazilian fintech to be featured in the "The Retail Tech 100" ranking by CB Insights, on the "Protection Solutions for Payments and Frauds".

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