Sr. Engineering Manager (Fraud)

Job Description

Come Make an Impact on Millions of Brazilians!

At RecargaPay, we’re on a mission to deliver the best payment experience for Brazilian consumers and small businesses — by building a powerful digital ecosystem where the banked and unbanked connect, and where consumers and merchants have a one-stop shop for all their financial needs.

We serve over 10 million users and process more than USD 4 billion annually. We’ve been profitable since 2022 and operate our own credit business. We are an AI-first, 100% remote team, scaling in the rapidly changing Brazilian financial market.

Our goal? Deliver the best payment experience in Brazil for people and small businesses alike.

We value autonomy, ownership, and a bias for action. We’re looking for people who are curious, hands-on, and driven by impact — who want to solve real problems, work with strong teams, and rethink what’s possible.

If you’re ready to do your best work, at scale, with purpose — this is your place.

We are seeking a skilled Engineering Manager in the Fraud team who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about leveraging technology to combat fraudulent activities. In this leadership role, you will drive the technical vision and oversee a talented group of engineers dedicated to building sophisticated fraud detection systems.

Your main responsibility will be leading the development and deployment of algorithms that identify potentially fraudulent behavior, balancing security with user experience. You will foster a culture of collaboration and innovation while ensuring that the engineering team has the tools and mentorship they need to succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead multiple engineering teams, setting clear objectives and ensuring alignment with company goals. 
• Play a key role in hiring, training, and developing engineering talent, fostering a growth-oriented and supportive environment. 
• Establish a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and innovation. 
• Drive performance management, ensuring continuous learning, coaching, and career progression for team members. 
• Guide conversations to remove blockers and foster collaboration within the team.
• Define clear KPIs and OKRs to measure team effectiveness and delivery success. 
• Make proactive adjustments to team capacity and delivery timelines as needed.
• Accompany the different stakeholders in planning and organizing priorities. 
• Ensure teams deliver projects on time, meeting quality and scalability standards. 
• Manage engineering budgets, tooling investments, and infrastructure costs to maximize efficiency. 
• Clearly communicate the technical vision to engineering teams, ensuring alignment and commitment to delivery. 
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment. 
• Act as a bridge between business, product and technology, translating technical insights into business impact. 
• Foster a culture of open communication, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration. 
• Ensure clarity in system design, advocating for scalable, maintainable, and resilient architectures. 
• Guide teams in making high-impact architectural decisions, balancing tradeoffs between scalability, security, and performance. 
• Oversee technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and longterm system evolution. 
• Encourage best practices in software engineering, including code reviews, CI/CD automation, observability, and performance optimization. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine technical requirements. 
• 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.

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.
• Background optimizing engineering processes using agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Experience working in medium to high complexity domains, with strong understanding of web and mobile application architecture, security, and best practices.
• Knowledge of relational database systems and Object Oriented Programming.
• Familiarity with 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.
• Advanced Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills.
• Ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing engineering teams, define clear objectives, and ensure successful, on-time delivery.

• Ability to evaluate and prioritize technical work based on business value, system health, and long-term platform goals.
• Experience driving knowledge sharing, and promoting collaborative development practices.
• Active contribution to aligning technological strategies with broader organizational objectives.
• Strong grasp of software quality practices: testing strategies, code reviews, observability, performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and distributed systems, with experience guiding decisions around scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, test automation, documentation support).
• Proven ability to manage engineering budgets, infrastructure resources, and tooling investments.
• Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent, including mentoring technical leads and fostering team growth.
• Success in managing managers and building layered leadership structures is a plus.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate technical initiatives into business value.
• Proven capability defining and tracking team KPIs and OKRs to measure delivery success.
• Ability to manage timelines, priorities, and resources across multiple squads or teams.
• Demonstrated success working with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Business, Operations).

Soft Skills

• Ability to clearly articulate technical and strategic priorities to diverse audiences, from engineers to executives.
• Inspires trust, aligns teams around shared goals, and drives execution through vision and clarity.
• Focused on building inclusive, psychologically safe environments where individuals thrive and collaborate effectively.
• Works seamlessly across squads, departments, and roles, acting as a bridge between business, product, and technology.
• Committed to unlocking the potential of individuals and teams through guidance, feedback, and challenge.
• Comfortable navigating change, reprioritizing initiatives, and helping teams remain focused during uncertainty.
• Demonstrates strong ownership by driving execution, removing blockers, and holding teams accountable without micromanagement.
• Makes informed decisions under uncertainty by leveraging available data, performance indicators, and feedback loops to drive team effectiveness.
• 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.
• 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.
• Champions continuous improvement through retrospectives, feedback loops, and a culture of learning and adaptation.

Industry-Specific Knowledge

As an Engineering Manager, 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 a strong understanding of the operational workflows, regulatory requirements, and business dynamics that drive them.

You use this domain knowledge to align engineering execution with strategic objectives, ensuring that teams deliver scalable, compliant, and high-impact solutions. Beyond guiding technical direction, you work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, manage trade-offs, and ensure that technology decisions are grounded in business value.

Your role involves overseeing multiple teams or squads, translating domain-specific needs into clear roadmaps and objectives, and enabling your engineers to understand how their work contributes to broader company goals. By connecting engineering execution to metrics like revenue growth, operational efficiency, and customer experience, you foster a culture where teams are empowered to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned salary.

• Annual Award Program
• 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.
• Language 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.

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