Staff Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Fintech): Driving the evolution of a payments stack, creating a seamless bridge between customers and merchants. Focus on architecting the financial infrastructure that millions of people and businesses rely on to grow, ensuring every transaction is a bridge of trust between hirify.global and our partners.

Location: São Paulo or Campinas, Brazil or Toronto, Canada or Buenos Aires, Argentina on a Hybrid model.

Company

hirify.global is one of the largest digital banking platforms and technology-leading companies in the world, redefining people's relationships with money across Latin America.

What you will do

• Architect scalable systems for the NuPay domain, ensuring seamless and robust integration with global internal payment platforms.
• Lead technical design for core payment lifecycles, balancing performance with security.
• Scale the payments platform to maintain high availability during extreme traffic surges.
• Partner with Product Managers to iterate on the checkout journey, optimizing for high conversion and low churn.
• Define engineering standards for architecture, observability, and security, influencing multiple squads to uphold a high quality bar.
• Collaborate with Risk and Finance teams to engineer solutions that satisfy complex regulatory requirements without compromising the user experience.

Requirements

• Track record of technical leadership in architecting complex, distributed software environments at scale.
• Deep expertise in high-availability systems, with demonstrated ability to perform rigorous trade-off analysis for long-term scalability.
• Background in high-criticality FinTech, specifically within Payments or Core Banking environments governed by strict SLAs.
• Evidence of delivering high-throughput systems using modern engineering practices, including automated testing, observability, and safe rollout strategies.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and shared ownership across organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience with acquiring, sub-acquiring, or payment gateway architecture.
• Previous involvement with e-commerce or marketplace platforms managing proprietary payment stacks.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to creating a welcoming work environment that respects and values diversity in all its forms.
• Encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
• Proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.