Staff Engineer

Posted 14hrs ago

Employment Information

Education
Salary
Experience
Job Type

Report this job

Job expired or something wrong with this job?

Job Description

Staff Engineer technical role influencing architectural decisions and guidance in a fintech startup. Focusing on improving overall system reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

  • Influence and guide the platform's mid- and long-term architectural decisions
  • Define and evolve technical standards for services, infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD
  • Act as a guardian of technical quality, reducing complexity and technical debt
  • Work closely with Tech Leads, SREs, and Tech Managers, helping to disambiguate difficult decisions
  • Design and evolve shared platforms and services (infrastructure, pipelines, templates, SDKs, internal tools)
  • Ensure high reliability, scalability, and security of production systems
  • Drive observability, troubleshooting, and response to critical incidents
  • Promote an excellent Developer Experience by improving build, deploy, testing, and operation flows
  • Mentor engineers at different levels, raising the organization's technical standard
  • Translate business needs into elegant, incremental, and sustainable technical solutions
  • Make decisions driven by metrics, data, and real business impact

Requirements:

  • Strong experience as a senior / staff / principal engineer
  • Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript
  • Extensive experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
  • Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud environments (GCP/AWS/Azure)
  • Excellent command of observability, troubleshooting, and production systems
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
  • Experience with CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure as code
  • Strong communication, influence, and mentoring skills
  • Ability to make complex technical decisions balancing business, engineering, and operations
  • Not required but a plus:
  • Significant experience in platform or SRE teams
  • Experience working on large-scale projects using Python
  • Experience with event-driven architectures
  • Familiarity with and application of DDD, Clean Architecture, and Ports & Adapters
  • Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives
  • Ability to explain complex technical decisions simply

Benefits:

  • Health Insurance (SulAmérica)
  • Dental Insurance (Bradesco)
  • Wellhub (formerly Gympass) – with coverage for up to 3 dependents
  • 24/7 Telemedicine – online video consultations available every day of the week
  • Waived fee for SEM PARAR monthly subscription – for 1 vehicle on the Tag Imparável plan
  • Meal Allowance or Food Voucher – choose the option that suits you best:
  • VA for supermarket purchases
  • VR for daily use at restaurants
  • Birthday day-off (personal and company)
  • Pregnancy support program and extended paternity leave
  • Life Insurance
  • Childcare assistance
  • Assistance for dependents with disabilities
  • Profit-sharing (PLR)