Tech Lead

Tech Lead

Role overview

As Tech Lead, you will lead an engineering vertical building real-time logistics and transactional systems. You will organize sprints, translate priorities into clear tasks, and support a small development team while remaining hands-on and shipping production code.

You will be the bridge between developers and executive leaders across other functions, communicating priorities, technical trade-offs, and delivery timelines. Your scope includes location tracking, carrier matching, event-driven services, and payment integrations. You will establish code review standards, implement proactive monitoring, and take ownership of the vertical’s technical roadmap.

Requirements

* Experience leading a small engineering team while actively writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.

* Experience building logistics or operational systems, preferably in a startup environment.

* Strong backend engineering skills, including database design, API integrations, debugging, and production reliability.

* Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and PostGIS for geofencing, route geometry, and location-aware queries.

* Hands-on experience with Redis Geo for real-time location tracking and proximity matching.

* Experience with Kafka or an equivalent event platform, including reliable event processing and safeguards against duplicate payment processing.

* Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

* Experience integrating card and bank payments and Open Banking APIs, such as Plaid, Belvo, or TrueLayer.

* Experience implementing monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

* Ability to break down business priorities into scoped tasks, provide reliable estimates, and manage delivery.

* Fluent English and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

* Lead the engineering vertical, establish a consistent sprint cadence, and break down work into actionable tasks.

* Write, review, and ship production code regularly, leading by example.

* Mentor developers and establish clear standards for code quality, testing, and technical reviews.

* Partner with executive leaders across other functions to align priorities, scope, dependencies, and timelines.

* Build and maintain geospatial capabilities for location tracking, geofencing, route geometry, and carrier matching.

* Develop reliable event-driven services that process load and location events and prevent duplicate transaction processing.

* Build and maintain payment and payout integrations with reliable transaction handling.

* Implement monitoring and alerting that help the team identify and resolve issues before they affect users.

* Own the vertical’s technical roadmap, balancing business priorities, reliability, and maintainability.

Ideal profile

* Earns the team’s trust through technical judgment, clear communication, and hands-on contribution.

* Has led a small team while continuing to ship code, ideally in systems where bugs have direct financial consequences, such as payments, lending, or payouts.

* Has worked in a startup with a strong engineering culture, ideally in logistics or operations.

* Takes ownership of delivery and follows through on commitments.

* Connects technical decisions to business and operational needs.

* Preferably based in Brazil.

Preferred skills

* Real-time fraud scoring with response times under 100 milliseconds.

* Alternative credit modeling.

* Kafka Streams or Faust.

* Familiarity with PCI-DSS and SOC 2.

* Kubernetes.

First 90 days

* By day 30: Establish a fixed sprint cadence and ship your own code to production.

* By day 60: Provide estimates that other functions can rely on, with code review standards and proactive alerting in place.

* By day 90: Own the vertical’s roadmap and deliver a written plan for the next two quarters.