Quick Summary
About PicPay
With over a decade of innovation, PicPay stands as a comprehensive ecosystem for financial and non-financial services. Our mission is to address the daily needs of millions of individuals and businesses, establishing PicPay as their primary everyday account. Founded in Vitória (ES), we proudly serve over 35 million active customers and are a key part of the J&F group, one of Brazil's largest business conglomerates. Our operations span various critical areas, including Financial Services for Individuals, Financial Services for Legal Entities, Investments, and PicPay Shop.
Our culture drives us to empower millions of Brazilians. We live by core values: Owner's Attitude, Discipline, Determination, Availability, Simplicity, Humility, and Frankness. We are committed to respect, ethics, equity, and diversity, which are integral to our daily practices. This position is open to all applicants, irrespective of gender, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other factor.
About the Vacancy
This role focuses on PicPay's Pix system, operating within a mission-critical environment. You will support millions of customers and process high volumes of transactions and data, with a strong emphasis on availability, scalability, low latency, security, and consistency. Technically, this involves working with distributed systems, integrating with the Central Bank's regulated ecosystem, ensuring robust observability, resilience, asynchronous processing, and implementing strategies for continuous operational continuity.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain high-availability, low-latency PHP microservices.
- Utilize AI agents as a development tool, providing guidance, critiquing results, and iterating towards optimal solutions.
- Analyze technical and functional requirements, assessing risks, complexity, and feasibility prior to implementation.
- Address bugs, investigate production incidents, and propose continuous system improvements.
- Execute integrations with financial partner APIs and regulatory systems.
- Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring high quality, security, and adherence to team standards.
- Monitor service performance and availability using advanced observability tools.
- Document technical solutions in alignment with best practices.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule.
Qualifications
- Proficiency in Hyperf frameworks.
- Experience with asynchronous programming using Swoole or other relevant languages.
- Background in PCI-DSS environments or handling sensitive data.
- Expertise in messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).
- Familiarity with AWS Services (EC2, SQS, S3, Lambda).
- Prior experience with payment systems or financial services.
- Proficiency in observability tools (Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog).
- Demonstrated experience documenting AI usage strategies within the development lifecycle.
What We Offer
Health and Well-being
- Comprehensive Medical and Dental Assistance.
- Life Insurance.
- "Side-by-Side" Program offering legal, social, psychological, and financial support.
- Wellhub membership.
Food, Mobility, or Telework Benefits
- PicPay Benefits credit card, widely accepted, providing balances for Food/Meal and Mobility or Telework, as per your employment contract.
Paternity and Maternity Leave
- Extended Maternity Leave of 6 months.
- Extended Paternity Leave of 20 days.
- "New Being" Program supporting mothers throughout pregnancy and upon return from leave.
- Childcare assistance for mothers returning from maternity leave, and for fathers with sole or shared custody.
We value and recognize results through our PPR (Participation in PicPay's Results) program.


