Senior Platform Engineer

🕒 February 9

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RecargaPay

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

👥 B2C

💰 $10M Debt Financing on 2022-07

Fintech • Finance • B2C

RecargaPay is a leading all-in-one payment platform in Brazil, dedicated to providing easy and secure access to mobile payments and digital financial services for everyone. The platform enables users to pay bills, recharge transportation and mobile phones, purchase gift cards, and make Pix transactions with credit cards. RecargaPay offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including cashback rewards, small loans, and a digital wallet with daily interest accrual. Additionally, they provide services to businesses, such as free business accounts, payment processing, and marketing solutions. With a focus on accessibility and innovation, RecargaPay strives to change how payments are made in Brazil.

📋 Description

• As a Senior Platform Engineer, manage our platforms to improve business continuity, best practices and contribute to the developer experience end-to-end. • Drive modernization and platform initiatives and steward high-leverage practices (Engineering, DevEx, SRE, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted engineering). • Translate day-to-day developer needs into Golden Paths, opinionated tooling, and policy-backed workflows. • Define and steer medium and long-term architectural strategies for the platform, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and reliability across all AWS environments. • Codify architecture into practice by delivering reference implementations and Golden Path templates for high-performance builds and standardized scaffolding. • Engineer safe delivery and reusable GitHub Actions. • Manage and optimize Kubernetes operations using Karpenter for intelligent node provisioning. • Make observability the default through OpenTelemetry and New Relic. • Raise cloud and service security, operate and propose improvements related to OAuth2/JWT and secrets lifecycle management. • Design and operate event topologies covering Kafka partitioning, compaction, retention policies, and schema evolution. • Promote the adoption of AI-assisted practices to enhance code quality, automated refactoring, automated operations, and technical documentation. • Drive cost-aware architecture through cloud computing best practices, scalability, and platform/service efficiency. • Implement governance and controls that ensure the correct management of services, security, and compliance of our platforms and technologies.

🎯 Requirements

• Academic Foundation: Background in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplines. • Expert Development: Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering, with solid proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) and TypeScript/Python. • Distributed Systems: Mastery of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and microservices architecture, designing for high performance and high availability. • Build: Deep knowledge of Bazel build systems. • Expert-Level AWS: Deep, practical experience with core services: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, Networking, and Security. • Infrastructure as Code: Advanced experience with Terraform (modules/policy enforcement) and Pulumi (multi-language stacks). • Kubernetes Internals: Deep knowledge of EKS, including Karpenter for scaling, Istio for service mesh, and Argo/Flux for GitOps. • SRE & Resilience: Mastery of reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, back-pressure, stress tests, application architecture) and SLO-driven operations. • Security Hardening: Expert knowledge of AWS security controls, OPA/Rego policy design for admission controllers, and container security (image signing, ECR scanning). • Full-Stack Observability: Proficiency in OpenTelemetry design and integration with New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus. • Self-Service Platforms: Proven experience building Internal Developer Portals and ephemeral environments. • Delivery Automation: Expertise in GitHub Actions, Flagger for progressive delivery, and feature-flag governance. • Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate complex business goals into long-term technical direction. • Influential Leadership: Excellent communication skills to influence stakeholders and mentor technical leaders. • Autonomy & Accountability: High degree of ownership with a bias for action in fast-paced, large-scale environments. • Constructive Culture: Active contributor to feedback loops, ADR/RFC hygiene, and continuous learning. • Real-world experience in critical workloads and regulated environments (ideally Fintech). • Ability to translate compliance controls (PCI-DSS, LGPD) into automated technical patterns.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 (via Flash). • TotalPass membership to take care of your health. • Spanish or Portuguese classes.