2 months ago
Remote, AmericasStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Head of Platform Engineering to translate strategy into architecture and shipped systems.
- Own product and solution architecture across multiple services and engineering teams.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, observable, and safe-to-operate APIs, services, and systems using REST and/or gRPC.
- Set and drive adoption of company-wide standards for reliability, code quality, and engineering practices.
- Ensure services include metrics, tracing, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting for end-to-end team ownership.
- Lead large, incremental refactors that reduce structural debt without disrupting delivery.
- Research and invest in engineering productivity tooling, with a focus on the AI space.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams while delivering mission-critical systems under tight deadlines.
- Design and operate event-driven architectures, change-data-capture pipelines, production data models, and full-text search systems.
- Build systems with strong security, correctness, auditability, consistency, and graceful-degradation characteristics.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience building API-driven services.
- Strong daily coding ability and deep expertise designing and operating web services with REST and/or gRPC.
- Strong experience with distributed architectures, microservices, monolith decomposition, and event-driven systems at scale.
- Experience with change data capture using operational database replication, Debezium, or equivalent systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, metrics systems such as Prometheus and PromQL, and observability across traces, metrics, and logs.
- Strong refactoring skills and experience with trunk-based development, feature flags, and continuous low-risk delivery.
- Strong proficiency in Go; Java, Python, or Rust experience is a plus.
- Experience designing production data models with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and/or Snowflake, including lifecycle, retention, and archival concerns.
- Understanding of OLTP and OLAP system design and analytical data flows.
- Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes.
- Production experience designing and operating full-text search with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or PostgreSQL full-text search.
- Professional working proficiency in English and Spanish; Portuguese proficiency is a plus.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, lending, financial rails, fraud, risk, credit decisioning, regulatory compliance, or high-availability systems is preferred.
- Experience with payment systems, ledgers, settlement, reconciliation, double-entry accounting, financial correctness, auditability, or disaster recovery is preferred.
- Familiarity with agent/LLM infrastructure, MCP, policy engines such as OPA/Rego, event streaming, and vector stores is preferred.
Benefits
- High-impact role at a mission-driven fintech with regional scale.
- Cross-functional collaboration with teams across Latin America.
- Equipment provided by R2.
- Training budget for professional development.
- Career growth within R2.
- Location in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, or Santiago; the role is limited to Latin America.
- Eligible team members may participate in R2’s performance-based Phantom Share Program.
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About R2 Games
R2Games (Reality Squared Games) publishes and operates free-to-play browser and mobile games, partnering with developers to localize, launch, and run live-ops for global audiences. Its platform focuses on MMORPGs and other online titles monetized through in-game purchases, supported by community management and customer service. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and concentrates on bringing China-developed online games to overseas markets.