Staff Software Engineer, Risk & Identity

Stone & Company

Staff Software Engineer focusing on Risk & Identity, responsible for high-scale projects in client lifecycle management. Joining Stone to ensure integrity in an evolving payments landscape.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ElixirGoPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Technical Reference and Architecture: Design and evolve the architecture of distributed systems focused on high availability, low latency and resilience.
Hands-on: Write code, perform rigorous code reviews and take an active role in troubleshooting and debugging complex issues.
Incident Response: Lead the resolution of critical incidents, ensuring rapid response and creating action plans to prevent recurrence.
Technology Transition: Work excellently with our Elixir legacy systems while leading and supporting the emergence of new projects in Golang. (We expect someone open-minded and eager to learn new things.)
Observability Culture: Promote mature practices for monitoring, messaging and deep observability across our infrastructure.
Strategic Vision: Translate business challenges in risk management into robust technical solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience as a Staff, Lead Engineer or Solution Architect in high-complexity, large-scale environments.
Strong background in Distributed Systems, messaging and event-driven architectures.
Analytical expertise in Relational Databases (especially PostgreSQL), able to optimize queries and handle large volumes of data.
Practical experience with observability and monitoring tools and culture.
Technology-agnostic mindset: comfortable switching between languages, unafraid to work on legacy systems and eager to learn new technologies.

Benefits

Comp & perks

💸 Base Salary
💰 Variable compensation *
📈 Profit sharing / PLR *
🏥 Health and Dental plan with copayment (except for people with disabilities who have no copayment)
🩺 24/7 Virtual Hospital: telemedicine team available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
💊 Medication subsidy
🍽️ Meal Allowance and/or Food Voucher - Pluxee* (except for Commercial Executive positions - 6hrs)
👶 Childcare allowance (for children up to 5 years and 11 months)
💙 Support for parents of children with disabilities
🛡️ Life Insurance
⛽ Fuel allowance or commuting allowance *
🏠 Home office allowance * (only for Hybrid or Remote contracts)
🎁 Welcome kit for new parents
🏢 SESC partnership*
📚 Education benefit - Internal self-development platform (Studa and Stone Library)
🧠 Acolhe360º - Emotional support (free)
💆 Quick Massage and Ambulatory*
Optional benefits:
Wellhub - TotalPass - Pet Club - Flash - Férias&Co - VT - Allya - Educational partnerships

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Hard Skills & Tools

ElixirGolangDistributed SystemsRelational DatabasesPostgreSQLCode ReviewsTroubleshootingDebuggingMonitoringEvent-driven Architectures

Soft Skills

LeadershipAnalytical ExpertiseOpen-mindednessEagerness to LearnStrategic Vision