Senior Staff / Principal Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Staff / Principal Engineer (Digital Ecosystem): Driving the technical vision and execution for hirify.global’s Digital Ecosystem division, focusing on NuPay, Ads & Rewards, and Insurance with an accent on scalable architecture, high-impact product delivery, and cross-org leadership. Focus on designing division-level end-state architecture, optimizing availability/performance SLIs/SLOs, enabling real-time decisioning/underwriting, and platform migrations while balancing trade-offs in cost, latency, and compliance.

Location: Brazil (Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo); USA (Durham, Miami, Palo Alto, Washington DC)

Company

Leading fintech transforming digital payments, rewards, and insurance into a scalable ecosystem for customers and merchants.

What you will do

• Define division’s 2–3 year technical end-state including architecture, sharding, migration paths, and trade-offs.
• Co-own availability, performance SLIs/SLOs, observability, runbooks, and incident management for merchant SLAs.
• Design Ads & Rewards platform for audience/campaign management, real-time decisioning, bidding, and attribution.
• Drive NuPay integrations for real-time underwriting, multi-source funding, wallet flows, and merchant onboarding.
• Enable Insurance one-click products, partner integrations, billing migrations, and app quality improvements.
• Mentor engineering leaders, run RFCs/tech talks, and represent division in cross-org negotiations.

Requirements

• Experience leading architecture at scale in payments, ads, or insurance domains.
• Deep expertise in SLIs/SLOs, observability, real-time systems, and platform design.
• Strong stakeholder management across product, finance, legal, and external partners.
• Track record influencing business metrics like TPV, MAU, revenue, NPS at high scale.
• Ability to balance platformization, tech debt, and rapid delivery.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with high-calibre engineers, staff engineers, and experienced managers on complex, high-impact problems.
• Autonomy to shape architecture, product quality rituals, and division roadmap.
• Responsibility for aligning delivery across product, infra, legal, and commercial stakeholders.
• Focus on engineering excellence, app quality, and elevated culture.