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# Technical Lead - Java at dLocal

- **Company:** dLocal
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/dlocal/aa530e52-bca9-47fc-bb81-2a2c9d51ac09

## Job description

Why Join dLocal?dLocal is the financial infrastructure powering global commerce in the world's fastest-growing markets. The biggest companies in the world trust us to unlock growth in 60+ countries across emerging markets—moving money where others see complexity. We don't just process payments; we are architects of payment ecosystems and partners in our customers' expansion. You'll work alongside 1,300+ teammates from 40+ nationalities and tackle global challenges from day one.

We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer to join our Payments Performance team. This team is focused on optimizing payment performance across multiple dimensions: improving conversion rates, maximizing take rate, and keeping fraud and operational costs under control while ensuring compliance. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and evolving the systems that power critical areas such as payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection. This includes building and scaling systems that intelligently decide which processors handle each transaction, developing real-time fraud decisioning tools based on data and machine learning models, and enabling proactive detection of anomalies across business and operational metrics. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design robust, scalable, and high-performance systems, ensuring they meet both current and future needs. Your expertise in system design and architecture will be essential in driving technical decisions, improving our platform, and helping the team navigate complex challenges. This role requires a strong strategic mindset and the ability to understand the broader impact of technical decisions, as you’ll be contributing directly to the evolution of one of the most critical areas of our platform.

What will I be doing?

- Collaborate with technology leaders and the product team to understand department goals and requirements, translating them into technical solutions.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java applications and systems aligned with business objectives.
- Lead the technical architecture and design of Java-based projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Create scalable architecture systems for Java-based applications, considering future growth and evolving business needs.
- Optimize application performance by identifying and addressing areas for improvement, such as code optimization, database query optimization, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks to enhance application stability and performance.
- Perform validation tests to ensure the flexibility and scalability of the Java environment, making necessary adjustments as needed.
- Conduct comprehensive system performance tests to identify bottlenecks, assess system capacity, and fine-tune application performance.
- Generate and present detailed systems reports, including performance metrics, bottlenecks, and recommendations for improvements.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high standards of software development, ensuring code quality, readability, and adherence to best practices.

What skills do I need?

- Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science.
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in Java development.
- Solid experience in Java application development and software architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of object-oriented design principles and design patterns.
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and readable code.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP (desired).
- Experience with Java development frameworks like Spring and Hibernate.
- Event-driven architecture design experience.
- High-level project management skills.
- Ability to solve complex software system issues.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Being a team player, enjoying working with your own team and collaborating with other teams in the organization.
- Upper-intermediate written and spoken English proficiency.
- Well-versed in the software development life cycle.
- Experience with monitoring applications in production using telemetry tooling such as Newrelic, Datadog, Grafana + Prometheus, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, distributed logs like ELK, etc.

What do we offer? Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you:

- Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs.
- Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity.
- Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
- Work From Anywhere: Team members can work while traveling for up to 3 months every year.

What 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 webpage, Linkedin and Youtube for more about dLocal!

## About dLocal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: dLocal provides a cross-border payment platform that enables global merchants to accept payments and disburse payouts in emerging markets through a single API.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: DLO)
- **Headquarters**: Montevideo, Uruguay
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Sebastián Kanovich (former CEO), Sergio Fogel, Andrés Bzurovski, and Federico Pfeifer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial technology (Fintech), Payment Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B; global e-commerce merchants, digital platforms, marketplaces, and enterprises seeking to expand into emerging markets
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To close the payments innovation gap between international businesses and emerging economies.

## Products & Services
- **Payins**: Accept local payment methods (credit/debit cards, cash, bank transfers, digital wallets) across 60+ countries, with dynamic FX conversion, to boost conversion rates.
- **Payouts**: Disburse funds to local bank accounts, digital wallets, and other methods in emerging markets.
- **dLocal for Platforms**: A solution for global marketplaces to onboard users, accept, send, and split funds between multiple users across high-growth markets.
- **Defense Suite**: A comprehensive fraud management solution designed to minimize financial loss and build merchant reputation.
- **Direct Issuing**: Enables merchants to issue virtual and physical cards in local markets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap fluctuates. As of early 2025, it was roughly in the $2-3 billion range (check latest figures).
- **Key Metric**: Processed **$41 billion** in payment volume in 2025. Annual revenue is publicly reported in SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), with recent reports showing strong growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Key investors include Alkeon Capital, General Atlantic, and others. Major merchants include global giants like Uber, Amazon, and Spotify.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to over 1,000 payment methods and operations in 44+ countries as of 2025; team has grown to over 1,200 employees; continues to expand into Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Local Expertise**: Has "boots on the ground" in every region where they process payments, offering superior compliance, KYC, and local regulatory knowledge.
- **Single API, Broad Coverage**: A single integration provides access to 1,000+ payment methods in 60+ countries, simplifying a highly complex landscape.
- **AI-Powered Smart Routing**: Uses AI to optimize transaction routing for higher conversion rates, with robust fallback and redundancy.
- **First-Mover Advantage**: Pioneer in the cross-border payments space for emerging markets, building a strong network effect with merchants and local partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic Expansion**: Continuing to expand payment coverage in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
- **Product Innovation**: Enhancing the platform with AI-driven fraud prevention, smart routing, and new financial products like direct issuing.
- **Platform Economics**: Deepening relationships with large global merchants and expanding the "dLocal for Platforms" offering to capture marketplace and platform payment flows.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture ("dLocal Drive")**: The company seeks ambitious people who thrive in a fast-paced, high-adrenaline environment with a focus on making the "impossible happen."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Offers flexible schedules and a "Work From Anywhere" policy allowing employees to work from anywhere for up to 3 months per year. Many roles are hybrid (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sao Paulo, Madrid, London, etc.).
- **Global Team**: A diverse team of over 1,200 professionals from around the world, with a strong presence in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
- **Benefits**: Includes a referral bonus program, learning & development tools, a social budget for team connection, and a focus on global talent with local expertise.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Working at a public company with a strong growth trajectory provides exposure to complex global challenges and career advancement in a high-impact fintech.

## Sources
1. [dlocal.com](https://www.dlocal.com/)
2. [dlocal.com - About Us](https://www.dlocal.com/company/about-us/)
3. [dlocal.com - Careers](https://www.dlocal.com/careers/)
4. [investor.dlocal.com](https://investor.dlocal.com/)
5. [jobs.lever.co/dlocal](https://jobs.lever.co/dlocal)

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