Why should you join dLocal?
dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest-growing, emerging markets.
By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000+ teammates from 30+ different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of people’s daily lives. We are builders, we never run from a challenge, we are customer-centric, and if this sounds like you, we know you will thrive in our team.
What's the opportunity?
dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO) is the payments platform connecting global merchants with billions of emerging-market consumers. We run mission-critical infrastructure across LatAm, Africa, and Asia, at volumes and regulatory complexity that leave no margin for unreliable delivery. Our engineering organization ships to production many times a day and is running one of the most ambitious AI-assisted engineering transformations in fintech.
Most companies are learning the hard way that giving engineers AI tools and hoping for the best produces more code, not better software. Deployment frequency rises; change failure rate rises with it. Rollbacks become routine. Codebases drift out of architectural consistency as teams lean on different assistants with different defaults. The productivity win gets consumed by rework, incidents, and technical debt.
We are not running that experiment. We believe the platform is the distribution layer for AI inside an engineering organization, and that effective productivity — shipping faster without shipping more defects — is only achievable when standardization, reliability, and AI adoption are owned by one leader with the mandate and seniority to drive change across the org. That's the opportunity. You will own how dLocal builds and ships software — the platform, the paved roads, the reliability posture, and the way AI is embedded into the engineering workflow — so that every engineer at dLocal is demonstrably more productive and demonstrably safer in production six months after you start. You will have direct exec-level visibility on dLocal's automation program, a seat at the engineering strategy table, and the mandate to reshape how hundreds of engineers work.
What will I be doing?
You are accountable for two integrated outcomes: effective engineering productivity — velocity that survives contact with production, not velocity for its own sake — and production reliability — the SRE posture, rollback guarantees, and incident response that let teams move fast without breaking payments. These are not two jobs. They are one job, because the platform is the mechanism through which both are delivered.
Own the IDP. Standardized service templates, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, feature-flag infrastructure, progressive delivery, automated rollback. Golden paths for each tech stack we currently operate, faster to use than to work around. A platform-as-a-product discipline where dLocal engineers are your customers.
Own SRE and production excellence. Reliability engineering across dLocal's payment platforms. Observability standards. Incident management maturity. Production readiness reviews. On-call health. Error budgets. The operational contract between platform and product engineering teams.
Own AI-assisted engineering, done right. You own how AI shows up in the developer workflow at dLocal. That means the evolution of dCoder — our proprietary AI code generation platform built on advanced models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others — the integration of third-party assistants where they add value, the prompts and context engineering that keep AI output
