Staff Backend Engineer | JVM

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer | JVM based in Brazil. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will shape the technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards of a high-scale backend platform supporting financial services across Latin America. You will drive improvements across critical credit, payments, and marketplace systems, ensuring they remain secure, reliable, and ready to scale. Working as a senior individual contributor, you will influence multiple engineering squads without direct people-management responsibilities. You will partner with Product, Risk, Growth, Security, and Platform teams to connect technical decisions with measurable business outcomes. You will also champion modern JVM technologies, distributed systems practices, and AI-native software development workflows. This is an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with organization-wide influence in a fast-growing fintech environment.