This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Engineer based in Brazil.
This role offers the opportunity to build and scale critical financial technology systems that directly support growing businesses.
You will work as a senior individual contributor, owning complex projects from architecture and design through production delivery.
The position focuses on payments, billing, and financial operations infrastructure, requiring strong technical judgment and a high level of ownership.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence engineering decisions, and contribute to improving development practices across the organization.
The role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and mentorship responsibilities within a remote-first environment.
You will have the autonomy to solve challenging problems, shape technical direction, and build reliable systems used by real-world businesses.
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer looking to expand their impact and grow toward a broader technical leadership scope.
Accountabilities:
As a Senior Product Engineer, you will take ownership of medium-to-large engineering initiatives within financial operations systems, contributing to architecture decisions, technical excellence, and the evolution of engineering practices. You will combine hands-on development with mentorship and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.
- Own and deliver medium-to-large financial systems projects end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through production deployment.
- Build and maintain critical payment, billing, and financial operations infrastructure supporting business workflows at scale.
- Develop deep technical expertise in financial systems, integrations, and operational processes to become a trusted technical partner.
- Design and implement backend solutions including APIs, data models, asynchronous processing, and scalable system architectures.
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decisions within the engineering organization.
- Improve engineering quality by leading initiatives related to testing standards, documentation, code reviews, and development practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and support their technical growth through guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and engineering stakeholders to define solutions for complex and sometimes ambiguous challenges.
- Ensure system reliability by implementing robust integrations, error handling strategies, and data integrity practices.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate is an experienced backend-focused engineer who combines strong technical skills with ownership, communication, and leadership abilities. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where engineers have significant influence over architecture, processes, and product outcomes.
- Strong backend engineering experience with API design, database modeling, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience with backend technologies such as Python and Django is a plus.
- Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge, including query optimization, schema design, migrations, and data integrity patterns.
- Experience building and maintaining third-party integrations, ideally within payments, billing, or financial systems.
- Strong understanding of reliability patterns such as failure handling, retries, and idempotency.
- Proven experience owning complex projects from conception to delivery, including technical tradeoffs and cross-functional coordination.
- Ability to influence architecture and engineering practices beyond individual project responsibilities.
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping improve team technical standards.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity with autonomy.
- Interest in high-growth environments where ownership, speed, and continuous improvement are highly valued.
Nice to have:
- Experience with financial technology products or payment platforms.
- Familiarity with modern frontend technologies such as React, TypeScript, or Next.js.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Experience with GraphQL, Hasura, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub-based development workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering productivity practices.
Benefits:
- Fully remote work model for candidates based in Brazil.
- Flexible working schedule with core collaboration hours aligned with US Eastern Time.
- Opportunity to work on high-impact financial systems used by growing businesses.
- Significant ownership over architecture, technical decisions, and product outcomes.
- Clear growth path toward broader technical leadership responsibilities.
- Collaborative environment focused on trust, autonomy, and continuous learning.
- Opportunity to work with modern technologies including Python, Django, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, AWS, and AI development tools.
- Culture centered around ownership, simplicity, speed, and delivering meaningful impact.
- Inclusive workplace where diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued.
- Support and accommodations available throughout the hiring process when needed.
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