Staff Engineer - PIX/Payments Squad
Core
Design and scale critical financial infrastructure for Pix transactions, ensuring high availability, low latency, and consistency for millions of daily transactions.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Payments Infrastructure)
Builds
High-scale transaction processing systems, APIs, and integrations with Central Bank infrastructure (DICT, SPI) for Pix.
Domain
Fintech / Instant Payments / Financial Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, Event-driven architecture, Microservices, Asynchronous processing, Message queues, Idempotency, Failure recovery, Root cause analysis, Technical leadership, Regulatory compliance translation
Preferred skills
Pix (DICT, SPI, MED), Open Finance, ISO 20022, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub), Fraud detection mechanisms
Technologies
Pix, DICT, SPI, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Scheduler
Responsibilities
Design and evolve high-scale transaction processing architectures; Integrate with Central Bank infrastructure (DICT, SPI); Develop and evolve Pix APIs (initiation, receipt, refund, reconciliation); Handle various Pix journeys (QR Code, Copy & Paste, Bill Payment, Automatic); Build resilient systems with idempotency and retry strategies; Implement reconciliation and dispute resolution mechanisms; Translate regulatory changes into engineering solutions; Ensure end-to-end observability; Act as technical reference for complex engineering decisions; Collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
