Felipe
From Brazil (UTC-4)
Felipe – Java, React, Typescript
Felipe is a backend-oriented Senior Full-Stack Engineer with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures, complemented by experience with React. His background spans fintech, complex platforms, legacy modernization, and building reliable microservices-based solutions. He is comfortable taking ownership of architectural decisions, working directly with stakeholders, gathering requirements, and leading technical discussions. Felipe stands out for his proactive communication, early risk identification, and ability to align technical decisions with business needs.
16 years of commercial experience in
Main technologies
Additional skills
Direct hire
PossibleReady to get matched with vetted developers fast?
Let’s get started today!Experience Highlights
Senior Software Development Engineer
Built banking and fintech integrations for mission-critical financial systems, focusing on cloud-native architecture, legacy system modernization, security, and scalable backend services.
- Designed and developed fintech integrations involving core banking, loans, payments, onboarding, open finance, and data integration flows using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud;
- Contributed to legacy system modernization initiatives, including migration of secrets and configuration management to HashiCorp Vault;
- Designed and maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform, EKS, Secrets Manager, SNS, and SQS to support scalable and secure cloud-native services;
- Acted as a technical reference for architecture decisions, code reviews, project estimates, and mentoring across small engineering teams;
- Worked on mission-critical, revenue-impacting banking systems under regulatory and security constraints, including US banking requirements.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Worked on a gaming marketplace platform, contributing to backend services, React-based frontend development, cloud infrastructure, observability, automation, and scalable marketplace features.
- Built and maintained backend APIs for a gaming assets marketplace using Kotlin and Spring Boot;
- Developed serverless components using Python and AWS services, including Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SNS, and SQS;
- Designed and deployed observability and SRE features to improve tracing, monitoring, and metrics across distributed systems;
- Supported marketplace platform capabilities related to gaming asset catalog management, automation, and cloud infrastructure;
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable backend and infrastructure improvements under project deadlines.
Technical Lead
Led architecture and product engineering for a healthcare startup focused on helping physicians improve diagnostics and patient treatment follow-up.
- Designed the end-to-end solution architecture for a healthcare SaaS product, covering backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, authentication, and deployment;
- Developed backend services using Kotlin and Node.js serverless components on AWS;
- Built frontend features using React, Material UI, Context API, and Redux;
- Implemented cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS services, including ECS, RDS, S3, Cognito, and SNS;
- Led a small engineering team through technical decisions, code reviews, 1:1 meetings, onboarding, hiring support, performance feedback, and software development KPIs;
- Worked in a HIPAA-sensitive environment, considering healthcare privacy, security, and compliance requirements during product and architecture decisions.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Worked on modernizing a vehicle remarketing platform, supporting the migration of client account functionality from a legacy monolith to Salesforce and new cloud-native services.
- Designed and contributed to the migration of client account capabilities to Salesforce, improving customer account management and integration with new sales workflows;
- Applied event-driven architecture and anti-corruption layer patterns to isolate the legacy monolith while enabling new microservices;
- Designed cloud-native microservices and integrations using AWS services, including S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Kafka, and DynamoDB;
- Led requirements gathering, solution architecture design, proof-of-concept development, and domain-driven design activities;
- Collaborated directly with technical and business stakeholders to align architecture decisions with modernization goals and delivery deadlines.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Developed cloud-native financial infrastructure for a Brazilian open banking startup, contributing to scalable backend systems, microservices architecture, and secure financial services.
- Designed, developed, and deployed cloud-native systems and scalable backend services;
- Improved Node.js application performance, reliability, and maintainability;
- Enhanced application observability through distributed tracing, monitoring, and performance analysis;
- Built and maintained microservices-based architectures;
- Developed secure banking integrations and strengthened security architecture for financial systems.