Senior Platform Engineer

Come Make an Impact on Millions of Brazilians!
At RecargaPay, we’re on a mission to deliver the best payment experience for Brazilian consumers and small businesses — by building a powerful digital ecosystem where the banked and unbanked connect, and where consumers and merchants have a one-stop shop for all their financial needs.
We serve over 10 million users and process more than USD 4 billion annually. We’ve been profitable since 2022 and operate our own credit business. We are an AI-first, 100% remote team, scaling in the rapidly changing Brazilian financial market.
Our goal? Deliver the best payment experience in Brazil for people and small businesses alike.
We value autonomy, ownership, and a bias for action. We’re looking for people who are curious, hands-on, and driven by impact — who want to solve real problems, work with strong teams, and rethink what’s possible.
If you’re ready to do your best work, at scale, with purpose — this is your place.

Position Overview
As a Senior Platform Engineer, your primary mandate is to manage our platforms to improve business continuity, best practices and contribute to the developer experience end-to-end, eliminating friction, accelerating onboarding to first contribution, and lifting productivity across the entire software delivery lifecycle. You will drive modernization and platform initiatives and steward high-leverage practices (Engineering, DevEx, SRE, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted engineering), operating both hands-on and strategically while partnering with executive leadership and guiding Staff/Senior engineers to deliver scalable, reliable, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions on AWS. Crucially, you will translate day-to-day developer needs into Golden Paths, opinionated tooling, and policy-backed workflows, enabling adoption through clear documentation, targeted training, and automated self-service capabilities.
Key Responsabilities

• Architectural Strategy: Define and steer medium and long-term architectural strategies for the platform, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and reliability across all AWS environments.

• Platform as a Product: Codify architecture into practice by delivering reference implementations and Golden Path templates for high-performance builds and standardized scaffolding.

• GitOps & Continuous Delivery: Engineer safe delivery and reusable GitHub Actions. Institutionalize GitOps using ArgoCD/Flux and Flagger for progressive rollouts (canary/blue-green) with automated, SLO-gated rollbacks.

• Cloud-Native Orchestration: Manage and optimize Kubernetes operations using Karpenter for intelligent node provisioning, as well as HPA and KEDA for event-driven autoscaling.

• Observability & SRE: Make observability the default through OpenTelemetry and New Relic. Define SLIs/SLOs, establish error-budget policies, and automate tracking of post-incident actions.

• Security & Service Mesh: Raise cloud and service security, operate and propose improvements related to OAuth2/JWT and secrets lifecycle management (Secrets Manager/KMS). Implement Policy-as-Code adoption across CI/CD and Kubernetes admission controllers.

• Event-Driven Excellence: Design and operate event topologies covering Kafka partitioning, compaction, retention policies, and schema evolution, including performance and reliability.

• AI-Assisted Engineering: Promote the adoption of AI-assisted practices to enhance code quality, automated refactoring, automated operations, and technical documentation.

• FinOps & Efficiency: Drive cost-aware architecture through cloud computing best practices, scalability, and platform/service efficiency, not merely focusing on savings plans or reservations.

• Technical Governance: Implement governance and controls that ensure the correct management of services, security, and compliance of our platforms and technologies, contributing to a culture of excellence.

Requirements
Software Engineering & Architecture
- Academic Foundation: Background in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplines.
- Expert Development: Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering, with solid proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) and TypeScript/Python.
- Distributed Systems: Mastery of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and microservices architecture, designing for high performance and high availability.
- Build: Deep knowledge of Bazel build systems.
Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS Expertise)
- Expert-Level AWS: Deep, practical experience with core services: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, Networking, and Security.
- Infrastructure as Code: Advanced experience with Terraform (modules/policy enforcement) and Pulumi (multi-language stacks).
- Kubernetes Internals: Deep knowledge of EKS, including Karpenter for scaling, Istio for service mesh, and Argo/Flux for GitOps.

Security, Reliability & Observability
- SRE & Resilience: Mastery of reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, back-pressure, stress tests, application architecture) and SLO-driven operations.
- Security Hardening: Expert knowledge of AWS security controls, OPA/Rego policy design for admission controllers, and container security (image signing, ECR scanning).
- Full-Stack Observability: Proficiency in OpenTelemetry design and integration with New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Developer Experience (DevEx)
- Self-Service Platforms: Proven experience building Internal Developer Portals and ephemeral environments.
- Delivery Automation: Expertise in GitHub Actions, Flagger for progressive delivery, and feature-flag governance.

Soft Skills
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate complex business goals into long-term technical direction.
- Influential Leadership: Excellent communication skills to influence stakeholders and mentor technical leaders.
- Autonomy & Accountability: High degree of ownership with a bias for action in fast-paced, large-scale environments.
- Constructive Culture: Active contributor to feedback loops, ADR/RFC hygiene, and continuous learning.

Industry-Specific Knowledge
- Real-world experience in critical workloads and regulated environments (ideally Fintech).
- Ability to translate compliance controls (PCI-DSS, LGPD) into automated technical patterns.
Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned salary.

• Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!

• Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app.

• Health and dental plans with no co-pay.

• Life insurance.

• Flexible meal allowance (via Flash).

• TotalPass membership to take care of your health.

• Spanish or Portuguese classes.

Diversity & Inclusion at RecargaPay

At RecargaPay, you’ll have the freedom to be who you are because we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us more creative and stronger. Here, everyone is welcome to express themselves authentically. We value the richness of each journey and the multiple ways of seeing the world, without distinctions of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, or any other characteristic that makes us unique.
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