Head of Engineering - Payments Performance
Head of Engineering - Payments Performance
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21-08-2025
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Job Description
Why should you 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 worlds 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 1000 teammates from 30 different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of peoples 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.
Whats the opportunity
The mission of the Payments Performance vertical is to design develop and optimize advanced decision-making systems that ensure real-time transaction efficiency and security while maximizing conversion rate. Your teams will build world-class platforms encompassing Fraud Prevention Smart Routing Payment Optimization Transaction Scoring Anti-Money Laundering evaluations and Real-time Anomaly Detection leveraging advanced Data Science ML Ops and robust engineering practices. These systems directly impact key business metrics including conversion rates and transaction success.
As Head of Engineering - Payments Performance you will strategically guide Engineering Managers Engineering Leaders Architects and Technical Leaders to execute ambitious product visions with precision reliability and will also need to hire top talent grow teams and inspire your vertical members.
What will you be doing
- Leading mentoring and inspiring multiple high-performing engineering teams.
- Driving the development of scalable highly available and low-latency systems that enable real-time decision-making and maximize conversion rate.
- Championing a culture of innovation collaboration and technical excellence.
- Developing and executing strategic technology roadmaps that align with business objectives in close partnership with product leadership.
- Staying at the forefront of industry trends particularly in data-intensive applications with heavy usage of machine learning and fintech innovations.
- Ensuring the seamless integration of advanced analytics and machine learning solutions across various business areas.
- Spearheading hiring strategies to attract top talent in engineering roles.
- Overseeing the continuous evolution of architecture for data-intensive systems that process large volumes of data in both batch and streaming contexts.
- Advocating for and implementing best practices in coding data governance quality assurance and system observability.
What skills do you need
- 5 years of experience leading software engineering teams with at least 3 years managing other leaders.
- Experience working with Machine Learning and data services.
- Experience managing large-scale engineering teams (40 engineers and managers).
- Proven track record in fintech or related industries developing high-volume transaction systems with stringent performance requirements.
- Solid understanding of Data Engineering including batch and streaming data processing.
- Expertise in designing architectures for systems demanding high availability low latency and significant data throughput.
- Passionate leader with excellent communication strategic thinking and collaboration skills.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- Technical proficiency to align business needs with scalable cost-efficient and resilient technical solutions.
- Experience recruiting developing and retaining high-performing talent.
- Strong familiarity with cloud-based microservices real-time analytics and decision-making systems.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders across different areas.
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:
- Remote work: work from anywhere or one of our offices around the globe!*
- Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance.
- 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.
- Learning & development: get access to a Premium Coursera subscription.
- Language classes: we provide free English Spanish or Portuguese classes.
- Social budget: youll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!
- dLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team Weve got your back!
*For people based in Montevideo (Uruguay) applying to non-IT roles 55% monthly attendance to the office is required
What happens after you apply
Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible so dont worry you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
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