RecargaPayRE

Tech Lead (Sub-Acquirer)

RecargaPay is a Brazilian fintech company that provides a mobile payment super app for consumers and businesses, offering services like bill payments, mobile recharges, and Pix transactions.

RecargaPay

Employee count: 501-1000

Brazil only

Come and impact millions of Brazilians!!

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 DataBy 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).

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About RecargaPay

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We are RecargaPay, a mobile payment super app designed to simplify everyday life, focusing on the real needs of our customers. More than just an app, we're a solution that grows with you. We were born out of the desire to make people's lives easier, and today we are a payment super app present in the lives of millions of Brazilians. Our purpose is what drives us: to provide the best payment experience for consumers and small businesses in Brazil. In a world where payment solutions always seem the same, we rethink the obvious. We're dedicated to providing secure and easy access to mobile payments and financial services for all. Founded in 2010, we empower customers and merchants to complete essential transactions with convenience, without the need to wait in lines. With us, it's easy to pay bills in installments; cash in using boleto, with credit cards, debit cards, loans, QR codes, mPOS and Pix; and cash out, with multiple efficient alternatives. Our app is available for free via Android and iOS.

Our philosophy is #GETIMPACTDONE. At RecargaPay, we work to create impact in everything we do! Impact means achieving meaningful results that drive progress and success. With limited resources, our strength lies in selecting tasks that yield the best outcomes. By prioritizing wisely and optimizing efficiently, we accomplish more with less, making a profound difference where it truly matters. Our values include an ownership mindset, where we take full responsibility and never wait for someone else to act. We embrace adaptability, seeing uncertainty as a path to continuous growth and acting with a sense of urgency. Collaboration is key; we listen to understand, engage in discussions to seek the truth, and tackle difficult conversations with respect. We are result-oriented, pushing for efficient, low-complexity innovations with a high-achievement mindset. We're a 100% remote company, with employees spread across more than 100 cities in Brazil and around the world. We offer an 'Anywhere Office' model, allowing our team to work from wherever they want, and provide an Office Pass for access to coworking spaces.

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