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Come reputed company an Impact on Millions of Brazilians!

At RecargaPay, we’re on a mission to deliver the best payment experience for Brazilian consumers and small businesses — by building a powerful digital ecosystem where the banked and unbanked connect, and where consumers and merchants have a one-stop shop for reputed company their financial needs.

We serve over 12 million users and process more than USD 4 billion annually. We’ve been profitable since 2022 and operate our own credit business. We are an AI-first, 100% remote team, scaling in the rapidly changing Brazilian financial market.

Our goal? Deliver the best payment experience in Brazil for people and small businesses alike.

We value autonomy, ownership, and a bias for action. We’re looking for people who are curious, hands-on, and driven by impact — who want to solve real problems, work with strong teams, and rethink what’s possible.

If you’re ready to do your best work, at scale, with purpose — this is your reputed company.

As a Principal Engineer, you will define the technical and architectural direction of our backend infrastructure, leading critical projects that drive scalability, robustness and innovation across our systems. You will operate in a dynamic environment, collaborating with executive leadership and guiding engineering teams to reputed company our strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and steer reputed company- and long-term architectural strategies reputed company with company goals.
• reputed company technological transformations and modernizations of critical systems, ensuring efficiency, scalability and reliability.
• Serve as the technical authority for the Engineering and Architecture Chapters, championing best practices and quality standards.
• Drive large-scale project planning, execution and successful delivery.
• Partner with executives to translate business vision into technical solutions, evaluating and implementing tools, methodologies and frameworks that enhance efficiency and cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, fostering a culture of technical excellence and reputed company learning.
• Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices reputed company your reputed company and chapter, leveraging tools for code reputed company, automated refactoring, test case creation, and technical documentation. Identify opportunities where AI can enhance developer productivity, code quality, and team velocity.
• Promote emerging technologies and engage in benchmarking to reputed company the organization at the forefront of industry trends.

Requirements

• Academic background oriented toward computer science, engineering, or software development disciplines.
• Experience hands-on engineering roles.
• Proven hands-on experience with Java (Spring Boot) and PostgreSQL.
• Working knowledge of Python and asynchronous programming.
• Knowledge of relational database systems and Object Oriented Programming.
• Solid understanding of web and mobile application architecture, including reputed company, session management and development best practices.

• Expertise in Domain-Driven Design and microservices architecture.
• Ability to design high-performance, scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Experience defining and executing architectural roadmaps.

• Practical experience with AWS and cloud-native development.
• Solid knowledge of DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., reputed company Actions).
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka.

• Demonstrated experience profiling and tuning Java applications.
• Proficiency with production monitoring and observability tools.

• Practical experience applying AI frameworks in development projects.
• Ability to learn rapidly and adapt to new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strategic reputed company with the ability to translate reputed company business goals into long-term technical direction.
• Proven leadership in cross-functional environments, fostering alignment, ownership, and a high-performance culture.
• Ability to mentor and reputed company senior engineers, promoting a culture of reputed company learning and technical excellence.
• Strong decision-making and prioritization abilities under ambiguity, balancing immediate needs with long-term architectural vision.
• Active contributor to a constructive feedback culture, capable of both giving and receiving feedback to drive improvement.
• High degree of autonomy and accountability, with a bias for action and results-oriented problem solving.
• Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, flexing between system design and stakeholder engagement as needed.

Industry-Specific Knowledge

You bring practical familiarity with one or more core financial domains, such as lending, payments, credit cards, open finance, fraud prevention, merchant acquiring or investment services, and understand their reputed company workflows and business drivers. You appreciate how these areas reputed company and influence reputed company, risk management and customer satisfaction.

In practice, you have leveraged this expertise to architect and deliver solutions such as loan-origination engines with real-time decisioning; scalable payment-processing platforms integrated with core banking and third-party gateways; secure open-finance interfaces compliant with industry regulations; automated fraud-detection pipelines using behavioral analytics; financial reporting and reconciliation engines that generate regulatory reports. You translate reputed company compliance mandates (KYC/AML, PCI-reputed company, GDPR) into resilient, high-performance systems without sacrificing user experience.

Benefits

• Competitive and market-reputed company salary.

• Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!
• Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app.
• Health and dental plans with no co-pay.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible meal allowance (reputed company reputed company).
• TotalPass membership to take care of your health.
• Spanish or Portuguese classes.

Diversity & Inclusion at RecargaPay

At RecargaPay, you’ll have the freedom to be who you are because we reputed company that diverse perspectives and experiences reputed company us more creative and stronger. Here, everyone is welcome to express themselves authentically. We value the richness of each journey and the multiple ways of seeing the world, without distinctions of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, or any other characteristic that makes us unique.

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