Staff Engineer
Location
Brazil
Posted
22 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Engineer
Zapay
• Influence and guide the platform's mid- and long-term architectural decisions • Define and evolve technical standards for services, infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD • Act as a guardian of technical quality, reducing complexity and technical debt • Work closely with Tech Leads, SREs, and Tech Managers, helping to disambiguate difficult decisions • Design and evolve shared platforms and services (infrastructure, pipelines, templates, SDKs, internal tools) • Ensure high reliability, scalability, and security of production systems • Drive observability, troubleshooting, and response to critical incidents • Promote an excellent Developer Experience by improving build, deploy, testing, and operation flows • Mentor engineers at different levels, raising the organization's technical standard • Translate business needs into elegant, incremental, and sustainable technical solutions • Make decisions driven by metrics, data, and real business impact
Job Requirements
- Strong experience as a senior / staff / principal engineer
- Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript
- Extensive experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud environments (GCP/AWS/Azure)
- Excellent command of observability, troubleshooting, and production systems
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Experience with CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure as code
- Strong communication, influence, and mentoring skills
- Ability to make complex technical decisions balancing business, engineering, and operations
- Not required but a plus:
- Significant experience in platform or SRE teams
- Experience working on large-scale projects using Python
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with and application of DDD, Clean Architecture, and Ports & Adapters
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives
- Ability to explain complex technical decisions simply
Benefits
- Health Insurance (SulAmérica)
- Dental Insurance (Bradesco)
- Wellhub (formerly Gympass) – with coverage for up to 3 dependents
- 24/7 Telemedicine – online video consultations available every day of the week
- Waived fee for SEM PARAR monthly subscription – for 1 vehicle on the Tag Imparável plan
- Meal Allowance or Food Voucher – choose the option that suits you best:
- VA for supermarket purchases
- VR for daily use at restaurants
- Birthday day-off (personal and company)
- Pregnancy support program and extended paternity leave
- Life Insurance
- Childcare assistance
- Assistance for dependents with disabilities
- Profit-sharing (PLR)
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