Job Type Full-time
Workplace Hybrid
About dlocal

dLocal started with one goal - to close the payments innovation gap between global enterprise companies, and customers in emerging economies. We have over 1000 payment methods, in more than 60 countries. We are relentlessly focusing on serving our customers and solidifying our position as the preferred infrastructure solution for Global Merchants across Emerging Markets. With the ability to accept local payment methods and facilitate cross-border fund settlement worldwide, our merchants reach billions of underserved consumers in the high-growth markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. dLocal offers the ideal payment solutions for general commerce:
Payins: Accept local payment methods
Payouts: Compliantly send funds cross-border
dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform's payment solution
Financial technology for markets of the future.
We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer to join us. This team is focused on optimizing payment performance across multiple dimensions: improving conversion rates, maximizing take rate,



and keeping fraud and operational costs under control while ensuring compliance.
As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and evolving the systems that power critical areas such as payment routing, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection. This includes building and scaling systems that intelligently decide which processors handle each transaction, developing real-time fraud decisioning tools based on data and machine learning models, and enabling proactive detection of anomalies across business and operational metrics.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design robust, scalable, and high-performance systems, ensuring they meet both current and future needs. Your expertise in system design and architecture will be essential in driving technical decisions, improving our platform, and helping the team navigate complex challenges.
This role requires a strong str

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