Sr Staff Engineer

RecargaPay is the Super App that simplifies everyday payments for consumers and SMEs in Brazil.

The platform streamlines payments for over 6 million Brazilians by consolidating credit and debit cards, instant payments like Pix, and Open Finance, on a mission to democratize mobile payments and financial services in Brazil.

Featuring services such as bill payments, mobile top-ups, public transportation, installment plans, and loans, designed with convenience, low cost and flexibility in mind. RecargaPay is changing the way both banked and unbanked Brazilians make their everyday payments and access their financial services.

Development is at the core of everything we do at Recargapay. As Staff Engineer you will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low latency applications for mission-critical systems.

We are looking for candidates who are excited to learn and improve skills, who are eager to grow on a personal professional level with our company.

Responsibilities

• Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices;

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle;
• Create and maintain software documentation;
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review;
• Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams in their sub-department;
• Solves technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for their sub-department;

• Interfaces with EMs and Senior Manager or above and enables Staff Engineers to engage on department-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives;
• Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope;
• Proposes initial technical implementation which supports architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems;

• Guides conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration across teams;
• Exposes the work of the sub department and their business impact internally.

Requirements

• Minimum experience of 10+ years hands-on engineering roles;

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject;
• Used to deal with larger domains with 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;
• Deep knowledge in Domain Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture. 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 with asynchronous programming;
• Demonstrated experience profiling and performance tuning Java applications, and using monitoring tools for production application monitoring.