SAP & Corporate Systems Tech Lead

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.

Responsibilities

As SAP & Corporate Systems Tech Lead, you will be the founding hands-on technical leader for RecargaPay’s SAP and Corporate Systems capability. You will be responsible for the stability, evolution, integration, and technical governance of our SAP S/4HANA platform and the surrounding ecosystem of corporate applications across Finance, HR, Legal, Audit, Compliance, and Procurement.

This is a founding role. You will help build RecargaPay’s internal SAP and Corporate Systems technical capability from the ground up, reducing dependency on external partners, creating governance standards, and establishing the operating model required to support a regulated, fast-growing fintech.

You will work in close partnership with the squad's Product Owner, who owns product direction, business stakeholder management, vendor relationships, and RFI/RFP processes. Your role is to lead the technical execution of the roadmap, establish engineering and governance standards for SAP and Corporate Systems, and ensure that every change is observable, auditable, secure, and aligned with applicable regulatory frameworks such as BACEN, LGPD, Brazilian fiscal requirements, and SOX where applicable.

This is a deeply hands-on role. You are expected to stay close to the system and the team: reviewing and validating configurations, leading version upgrades and module updates, applying SAP Notes related to fiscal, legal, and regulatory changes, debugging production incidents, tuning HANA performance, governing transports, and pairing with Basis engineers, Functional Specialists, implementation partners, and internal engineering teams when needed.

Your leadership is exercised through proximity to the team: leading by example, reviewing configurations and changes, and acting as Tier 3 escalation for the most complex incidents. You are the primary technical reference of the squad and the main technical interface with Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, internal Specialists, and external implementation partners.

Champion a “clean-core / SAP-Minimalist” strategy, ensuring that S/4HANA remains as standard and maintainable as possible by prioritizing API-first integrations, avoiding unnecessary customizations, and moving non-core or highly variable business logic to external automation and orchestration layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the hands-on technical execution of the squad's roadmap in partnership with the Product Owner, ensuring delivery quality, operational continuity, compliance and regulatory alignment, and sustainable technical decisions across SAP and the broader Corporate Systems landscape.
• Own the technical governance and evolution of the SAP S/4HANA landscape end to end, taking action as required, including custom code strategy, development standards, release upgrades and their custom code adaptation, SAP Notes lifecycle, environment strategy, and coordination with the Basis Specialist and external partners for platform activities.
• Lead, hands-on, the design, development, and review of ABAP solutions on S/4HANA, including enhancements (BAdIs, enhancement spots), CDS views, AMDP, RAP-based services, OData services for Fiori, forms, background jobs, and interfaces, setting the quality bar through ATC, ABAP Unit, code review, and performance analysis.
• Own the technical architecture of the Corporate Systems ecosystem beyond SAP, including HRIS, Legal Tech, GRC, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, and workflow / automation platforms, ensuring a cohesive, secure, and auditable stack, while the Product Owner leads vendor selection, RFI/RFP, and contract governance.
• Define and implement the SAP and Corporate Systems operating model, including demand intake, prioritization criteria, ownership boundaries, support model, escalation paths, governance forums, change and release management, development and documentation standards, and lifecycle management.
• Define operational health indicators for SAP and Corporate Systems, including availability, job failures, interface errors, transport and code quality, incident recurrence, audit findings, SLA adherence, and business-impacting failures.
• Define integration patterns between SAP and the broader corporate ecosystem, prioritizing API-first, event-driven where applicable, secure, auditable, and loosely coupled architectures, and owning the technical design of integrations across SAP, SaaS platforms, internal services, and automation layers.
• Lead, hands-on, the adaptation of the SAP platform to fiscal, legal, and regulatory updates impacting Brazil and LATAM, including SAP Notes implementation with code adjustments, custom code impact analysis, localization extensions, master data impacts, and coordination with the Functional Specialist for the modules currently in scope.
• Govern the technical side of change management across SAP and Corporate Systems, including STMS and ChaRM (Solution Manager 7.2 or SAP Cloud ALM) for SAP, and version control, code review, and deployment practices for non-SAP assets, ensuring safe and traceable changes across environments.
• Oversee, together with the Basis Specialist and partners, the SAP platform operational practices that affect application reliability, including transport landscape health, background job strategy, interface monitoring, and upgrade readiness, ensuring that internal teams and partners follow reliable and auditable standards.
• Define and enforce security baselines for SAP and Corporate Systems in partnership with Security and GRC, including secure coding practices, authorization design in custom objects, user lifecycle, SoD principles, SSO, audit logs, API security, and secrets management aligned with LGPD, BACEN, and SOX where applicable.
• Establish master data governance practices for critical SAP and corporate objects such as Business Partner, chart of accounts, cost centers, legal entities, vendors, employees, tax data, approval hierarchies, and authorization-relevant attributes, including their consistency across SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Champion the "SAP-Minimalist" and clean-core strategy, keeping the S/4HANA core clean by favoring released APIs and extensibility over modifications, prioritizing API exposure, and shifting non-core business logic to external automation or orchestration layers built with sound software engineering practices.
• Run technical rituals for the squad: design sessions, code and architecture reviews, change advisory boards, post-mortems, patch planning, and tech debt grooming.
• Act as the internal technical authority for SAP and Corporate Systems, reviewing solution designs, estimates, code, configurations, transports, integrations, security impacts, documentation, and production readiness for work delivered by internal teams or external implementation partners.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex production incidents across SAP and corporate platforms, serving as Tier 3 escalation, debugging SAP standard and custom code where needed, and ensuring durable corrective actions.
• Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) for coding, code review, test generation, scripting, log analysis, runbook generation, and documentation, ensuring outputs are validated before production or audit-relevant use.
• Define team objectives and contribute to technical goals, ensuring alignment with the company's broader strategies and objectives.
• Facilitate communication within the squad and across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Actively participate in the recruitment, training, and development of team members, fostering a productive and growth-oriented environment.
• Collaborate with other Tech Leads, aligning technology strategies and contributing to the evolution of the company's technical direction.
• Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration in your team.
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, driving team evolution through feedback and actionable insights.
• Support team staffing decisions by matching people to tasks based on skills, priorities, and development opportunities.
• Support the definition and follow-up of individual development goals aligned with team objectives and business priorities.

Requirements

• Academic background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent technical experience in software engineering and SAP development.
• Strong software engineering foundation beyond SAP, including system design, API design (REST, events, webhooks), data modeling, integration architecture, version control (Git), code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability, with the ability to apply these practices to both SAP and non-SAP corporate systems.
• Solid hands-on ABAP development experience on productive SAP S/4HANA landscapes, including ABAP OO, enhancement framework (BAdIs, enhancement spots, implicit enhancements), CDS views, AMDP, RAP, OData services for Fiori, ABAP Unit, ATC, and performance analysis (SQL Monitor, ST05, SAT, code pushdown to HANA).
• Experience with S/4HANA release upgrades from the development side, including custom code impact analysis (ATC, Simplification Items, Custom Code Migration), SPDD/SPAU adjustments, remediation of obsolete objects, and regression support.
• Strong understanding of SAP clean-core principles, extensibility patterns (in-app, developer, side-by-side), API-first integration, and the trade-offs between standard configuration, custom development, BTP extensions, integration middleware, and external automation or orchestration layers.
• Experience designing, building, or technically governing corporate systems beyond SAP, such as HRIS, Legal Tech, GRC, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, or workflow / automation platforms, including SaaS integration, API consumption, data flows, and vendor technical governance.
• Experience acting as the internal technical authority for SAP implementation partners or managed service providers, with the ability to review and challenge solution designs, estimates, code, configurations, transports, integration impacts, security decisions, documentation, cutover plans, and production-readiness criteria.
• Working knowledge of SAP Basis and platform operations sufficient to govern and challenge the work of a Basis Specialist and partners, including transport landscape, SUM-based upgrades, SAP Notes lifecycle, background jobs, system monitoring, and HANA operational fundamentals (backup and recovery, replication, performance). Hands-on Basis execution is not the core of this role.
• Strong experience with SAP transport and change governance using STMS and ChaRM / Solution Manager 7.2 or SAP Cloud ALM, including release coordination, emergency changes, approvals, traceability, segregation of duties, and audit evidence. Knowledge of modern practices such as gCTS, abapGit, and CI/CD applied to SAP assets (ABAP, Fiori/UI5, BTP, integration artifacts) is a strong plus.
• Functional understanding of the SAP modules currently in scope, with FI and CO at minimum, including Universal Journal, Business Partner, tax determination, account determination, financial postings, master data impacts, and key integration points with external systems. Knowledge of MM, SD, Treasury, Procurement, or HR-related SAP processes is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience with Brazilian localization on SAP, including FI/CO and tax-related developments, NF-e, DRC / Document and Reporting Compliance, SPED, and fiscal complexity such as ICMS, PIS, COFINS, ISS, and IRRF. LATAM localization experience beyond Brazil is a strong plus.
• Experience coordinating and executing technical adaptations of SAP platforms to fiscal, legal, and regulatory changes, including SAP Notes implementation with code adjustments, version baseline alignment, master data impacts, transport planning, regression support, and validation of fiscal or financial flows in partnership with functional specialists and external partners.
• Working knowledge of security applied to SAP and corporate systems, including secure coding, authorization concepts, Code Vulnerability Analyzer, technical users, SSO, certificates, audit logs, API authentication and secrets management, and collaboration with Security/GRC teams on SoD-related controls.
• Experience with SAP integration technologies from the development side (IDoc, RFC/BAPI, OData, REST via ABAP HTTP client, proxies) and with SAP Integration Suite / CPI. Experience with SAP BTP and Cloud Connector is a strong plus. Groovy or JavaScript for iflow development is a plus.
• Programming experience in at least one general-purpose language beyond ABAP (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or equivalent) for integrations, automation, and operational tooling, plus scripting for automation, monitoring, and operational analysis.
• Experience leading technical squads or technical workstreams in fast-paced environments, including technical roadmap execution, architecture and code reviews, partner delivery reviews, mentorship, incident prioritization, and close partnership with a Product Owner.
• Practical experience in regulated or high-volume environments such as fintech, banking, payments, retail, or e-commerce, with exposure to compliance frameworks such as BACEN, LGPD, or SOX.
• Experience supporting SAP integrations with tax engines or fiscal platforms from a development and integration perspective, including interface design, error handling, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Experience building or improving internal development and platform governance, including coding standards, documentation, support models, monitoring practices, and operating standards, is highly desirable.
• Experience defining or improving SAP and Corporate Systems operating models, including support levels, escalation paths, release participation, change governance, environment strategy, partner handoffs, documentation standards, and audit evidence practices.
• Experience with observability and reliability practices across SAP and corporate systems, including job monitoring, interface monitoring, availability, performance baselines, error tracking, incident recurrence analysis, and operational dashboards.
• Experience producing or governing technical evidence for audits, including technical specifications, code review records, test evidence, transport approvals, change logs, access reviews, incident records, and operational control documentation.
• Familiarity with SAP landscapes on cloud or managed platforms (RISE with SAP or AWS) and with FinOps and cloud-cost considerations is a plus. Familiarity with BW/4HANA or analytics-related SAP components is desirable. Familiarity with localized banking systems in Brazil is a nice-to-have.
• Practical experience applying AI-assisted tools for coding, code review, test generation, documentation, log analysis, runbook generation, regression support, or operational knowledge management is desirable.
• SAP certifications in ABAP for SAP S/4HANA, ABAP Cloud / RAP, SAP BTP, or SAP Integration Suite are desirable. Cloud or software architecture certifications are a plus.
• Fluent Portuguese and advanced Spanish and English required given LATAM operations.

Soft Skills

• Ability to build structure in ambiguous environments, creating standards, governance, documentation, and decision-making mechanisms where they do not yet exist.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating alignment and decision-making.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product Owners, Specialists, Engineering, Security, Operations, partners, and other teams or squads in defining priorities and delivering value.
• Experience mentoring engineers, guiding career development, and fostering a growth-oriented, high-performance team environment.
• Technical leadership through proximity, leading by example with strong day-to-day, hands-on presence in code, design, and reviews across SAP and corporate systems.
• Capacity to make thoughtful, context-aware decisions that balance technical debt, delivery speed, business impact, risk, and compliance.
• Ability to recognize team dynamics, support team members through challenges, and cultivate psychological safety.
• Proactive in owning outcomes, addressing blockers, and ensuring that the squad delivers on commitments.
• Comfortable working in changing, regulated environments, reprioritizing as needed and adjusting to new business, regulatory, or technical demands, including high-pressure cutover windows.
• 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.
• Oriented toward retrospectives, feedback loops, and implementing process and culture improvements.
• High degree of autonomy and accountability, with a bias for action and results-oriented problem solving, combined with strong documentation and audit-trail discipline.
• Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, flexing between system design, development, and stakeholder engagement as needed.
• Ability to make decisions based on accurate information, technical indicators, and impact metrics, using data to prioritize initiatives, guide trade-offs, and measure success.
• Pragmatic modernization mindset: balancing strict regulatory compliance with a long-term vision of a decoupled, API-first enterprise architecture in which SAP is one component of a broader corporate systems landscape.

Industry-Specific Knowledge

It is highly desirable for the Tech Lead SAP & Corporate Systems to have experience building and evolving SAP and corporate systems in fintech, banking, payments, retail, or e-commerce environments, particularly companies with multiple legal entities and LATAM fiscal complexity, where regulatory frameworks (BACEN, LGPD, SOX where applicable) shape architecture and platform decisions. Strong candidates will have led platform adaptations driven by recurring fiscal, legal, and regulatory changes in Brazil and LATAM, and will understand how these changes propagate across SAP custom code, integrations, and adjacent corporate systems. Current examples in the portfolio include the SAP S/4HANA release upgrade cycle and the Brazilian Tax Reform (Reforma Tributária) transition, with new initiatives expected each year as the regulatory landscape evolves.

Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned salary.

• 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.

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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Industry-Specific Knowledge

It is desirable to have practical familiarity with one or more core financial domains such as lending, payments, credit cards, open finance, fraud prevention, merchant acquiring, or investment services, along with an understanding of their fundamental workflows and business drivers. Experience in how these domains intersect to influence revenue, risk management, and customer satisfaction is highly valued.

Ideally, candidates will have applied this knowledge to deliver solutions such as loan-origination engines with real-time decisioning; scalable payment-processing platforms integrated with core banking systems and third-party gateways; secure open-finance interfaces compliant with industry regulations; automated fraud-detection pipelines leveraging behavioral analytics; or financial reporting and reconciliation engines for regulatory compliance. The ability to translate complex compliance mandates (e.g., KYC/AML, PCI-DSS, GDPR) into resilient, high-performance systems without compromising user experience is considered a strong asset.