Staff Software Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Remote-first, limited to Brazil, Colombia, or Mexico; listed locations include Bogota D.C., Mexico City, and Sao Paulo

Company

hirify.global is a Latin American payments platform providing corporate cards, bill pay, financing, B2B payments, digital accounts, and related financial infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own payment initiatives end to end, from customer and operations discovery through production delivery.
• Define service boundaries, data models, event flows, and consistency guarantees for money movement systems.
• Set technical direction and roadmaps for Payments domains, including ledger, idempotency, and reconciliation patterns.
• Use parallel AI agents for scaffolding, code generation, testing, specifications, debugging, and operations while applying expert review and guardrails.
• Lead design and code reviews, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years building robust production systems, including ownership of architectures used by other engineers.
• Deep hands-on fintech infrastructure experience in production, including Pix with SPI/DICT, QR/BR Code, devolução, MED, limits, fraud controls, and newer Pix flows; digital accounts with onboarding, KYC/KYB, PLD-FT, ledgers, balances, holds, and blocks.
• Production experience with boletos, registradoras, CNAB 240 remessa/retorno, baixa, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Production experience shipping Open Finance consents and payment initiation flows.
• Applied knowledge of idempotency, retries, outbox patterns, sagas, event-driven design, consistency tradeoffs, Kafka or other message brokers, observability, SLOs, alerting, and operational runbooks.
• Deep Java and Spring Boot expertise with solid PostgreSQL knowledge, API design, concurrency, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on React and TypeScript experience shipping production user interfaces, including pending, failed, reversed, and disputed payment states.
• Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Git, cloud platforms preferably AWS, and security and privacy practices including tokenization, PII/LGPD, and OAuth2/OIDC.
• Product sense, strong written communication, comfort challenging priorities, and experience building systems from zero and measuring user impact.
• Experience integrating AI across discovery, design, implementation, review, debugging, and operations, including parallel agents, spec-driven prompting, review evaluations, and safeguards against unreviewed code and customer-data exposure.
• Professional English proficiency at B2 or higher and strong cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Ops, Compliance, and Backend teams.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership, low-ego engineering environment focused on impact in Latin America.
• Competitive salary and stock options through an ESOP from day one.
• Annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
• English is the working language, with Spanish and Portuguese used daily.
• Culture emphasizes clarity, simplicity, ownership, high standards, adaptability, and inclusivity.