Software Engineering Leader - Cloud Platform

  • Montevideo
  • Dlocal
Why you should 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, in a flexible, remote-first dynamic culture with travel, health, and learning benefits, among others. Being a part of dLocal means working with 800+ teammates from 25+ 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?  As our Software Engineering Leader you'll be in charge of leading a software development team and the applications that team owns. Your team will build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be leading a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications with big customers like Netflix, Amazon, Nike, Facebook & more! The different members of the team will report directly to you and you will be involved in helping develop their careers within the company.What will I be doing? You'll be responsible for week-to-week planning of your team and keeping each member accountableAs a tech lead, part of your role is to be a people manager - It's vital you dedicate time to managing your team membersYou'll be expected to drive technical direction in projects and assure they meet scalability and robustness requirementsYou'll be hands-on on projects, getting deep into code and be looked upon as the senior authority in software development tasks, projects, etcYou'll be responsible for hiring for your teamYou'll be responsible for communicating and planning between other teamsWhat skills do I need? Proven hands-on Software Development experienceProfound insight of Golang/Java desirableWide experience building scalable applicationsExperience leading remote development teams in the past - This could be at a job or working on an open-source projectExcellent written and verbal communicationEnjoy writing documentation and understand why it's valuableA self starter - You can come up with ideas and implement them yourselfDesign and implementation of the overall architecture of your team’s applicationsEnsuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalabilityObject Oriented analysis and design using common design patternsExperience in working/designing microservicesGood knowledge of Relational DatabasesExperience developing testable code (interfaces, dependency injection, mocking, single responsibility principle, etc)Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitWritten and spoken EnglishBe a team playerAWS knowledgeNoSql knowledge is desirableWhat 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 , , , and for more about dLocal!