Want to make a difference in the lives of millions of Brazilians? At RecargaPay, we create accessible and innovative financial solutions that transform the way people interact with money. Be part of this impactful and innovative journey, connecting people with opportunities that truly make a difference in their daily lives.

Our purpose is to deliver the best mobile payment experience for Brazilians, addressing real-world challenges with smart solutions like Pix Parcelado, while staying attentive to market trends and our customers' needs. Here, we value collaboration, ownership, and a relentless pursuit of results, delivering excellence in every interaction.

If you're looking to join a dynamic environment that challenges the status quo and puts people at the center of decision-making, RecargaPay is the perfect place for you to grow, co-create, and make a difference!

Responsibilities

As a Tech Lead, you will play a strategic role, serving as a technical reference and team leader. This position requires a balance between technical expertise, people leadership, and project management.

Define team objectives and project goals, ensuring alignment with the company's broader strategies and objectives
Facilitate communication within the squad and across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of high-quality outcomes
Actively participating in the recruitment, training, and development of team members, fostering a productive and growth-oriented environment
Collaborating with other technical leaders, aligning technology strategies and contributing to the evolution of the company's technical direction
Ensuring the technical quality of deliverables, providing guidance and support in solving complex problems
Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices within your squad and chapter, leveraging tools for code generation, automated refactoring, test case creation, and technical documentation. Identify opportunities where AI can enhance developer productivity, code quality, and team velocity
Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration in your team
Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure technical initiatives, such as refactoring, performance tuning, and tech debt—are properly scoped and prioritized within the product backlog
Ensure implementation of quality and observability standards, including automated testing, monitoring, alerting, and logging across the development lifecycle
Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, driving team evolution through feedback and actionable insights
Support team staffing decisions by matching people to tasks based on skills, priorities, and development opportunities
Support the definition and follow-up of individual development goals aligned with team objectives and business priorities

Requirements

Academic background oriented toward computer science, engineering, or software development disciplines
Proven track record of leading teams and working in product-driven companies
Hands-on experience in backend (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS) and optionally frontend development, with a track record of delivering scalable systems
Experience in Python is a plus
Experience with asynchronous programming
Experience working with domains of medium to high complexity
A solid understanding of how web and mobile applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
Knowledge of relational database systems and Object Oriented Programming
Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and experience designing or maintaining microservices-based systems
Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web and mobile technologies and techniques
Practical experience applying AI frameworks in development projects
Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience with agile methodologies
Advanced Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills
Ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Competence in defining clear objectives and ensuring the team meets project milestones
Experience guiding and leading teams to successful project deliveries within deadlines and budgets
Ability to evaluate and prioritize technical work based on business value, system health, and long-term platform goals
Experience conducting code reviews, driving knowledge sharing, and promoting collaborative development practices
Experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams
Active contribution to aligning technological strategies with broader organizational objectives

Soft Skills

Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating alignment and decision-making
Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product Managers, Product Owners, Squad Leaders, Designers, and other teams, tribes or squads in defining priorities and delivering value
Experience mentoring engineers, guiding career development, and fostering a growth-oriented, high-performance team environment
Capacity to make thoughtful, context-aware decisions that balance technical debt, delivery speed, and business impact
Ability to recognize team dynamics, support team members through challenges, and cultivate psychological safety
Proactive in owning outcomes, addressing blockers, and ensuring that the squad delivers on commitments
Comfortable working in changing environments, reprioritizing as needed, and adjusting to new business or technical demands
Skilled in managing disagreements constructively and promoting consensus through dialogue
Capable of influencing product and technical decisions at squad level and beyond, aligning technical initiatives with broader company goals
Oriented toward retrospectives, feedback loops, and implementing process and culture improvements
High degree of autonomy and accountability, with a bias for action and results-oriented problem solving
Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, flexing between system design and stakeholder engagement as needed
Ability to make decisions based on accurate information, technical indicators, and impact metrics, using data to prioritize initiatives, guide trade-offs, and measure success

Industry-Specific Knowledge

As a Tech Leader, you bring practical familiarity with one or more core financial domains, such as lending, payments, credit cards, open finance, fraud prevention, merchant acquiring, or investment services, and understand the operational workflows, regulatory considerations, and business impact that shape these areas.

You leverage this knowledge not only to guide the technical implementation of backend solutions, such as payment orchestration, fraud-detection services, or onboarding flows, but also to collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders in defining priorities and making trade-offs that balance technical feasibility with strategic objectives.

Your role involves translating domain-specific requirements into actionable tasks, mentoring engineers to understand the business context behind their work, and ensuring the team delivers solutions that are robust, compliant, and aligned with customer needs. You help the squad connect technical work with revenue, performance, and user experience outcomes, creating an environment where engineers contribute with full awareness of business impact.

Process Stages

HR Interview

Our first contact will be a casual conversation to learn about you, your career journey, and align expectations. We'll conduct a brief technical assessment and answer your questions about the role, our culture, and what makes us unique. We want you to get to know us better too! 💙🩵🧡💛

Assessment (skills Mapping)

We use an evaluation tool to map your work style and how you align with our culture. This step helps us understand how your skills can enhance our solutions. 🤓

Technical Assessment

Now it's time to showcase your technical talent! In this step, you'll solve technical cases and have a discussion with our engineering team. We'll dive into your decisions, strategies, and how you design scalable and robust solutions. Beyond evaluation, we want to exchange ideas and explore how your solutions can impact RecargaPay! 🔎

Conversation with Leadership

Here, you'll meet the squad leader to understand the position's challenges, discuss the team's daily activities, and evaluate alignment between our goals, culture, and your career aspirations. This will be an open space to align expectations and ensure RecargaPay is a place where you can grow and make a difference. 🫡

Offer

If we've made it this far together, we'd be thrilled to invite you to join our team! You'll receive a detailed proposal with all the information about the role, benefits, and the impact you'll have with us. We can't wait to welcome you! 💼🥳

_Note: There may be an additional step if specific alignments are needed.

_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.

About The Use Of Your Data

By sharing your resume with us, you authorize the use of your data for analysis during the selection process and possibly for other opportunities within the RecargaPay group. You can request the update or deletion of your information at any time, in accordance with LGPD (General Data Protection Law).