How to Apply to CloudWalk Technology

13 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 15 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • CloudWalk Inc. is the Brazilian fintech behind InfinitePay and the JIM AI assistant, headquartered in Sao Paulo with hubs in Belo Horizonte and Florianopolis, valued around $2 billion and operating with roughly 700 employees as of 2025.
  • Apply directly through the Lever job board at jobs.lever.co/cloudwalk. The board is small and curated; postings disappear quickly when filled.
  • The interview process typically runs three to five weeks across recruiter screen, hiring manager, take-home or technical assessment, technical panels, and a founder or executive round.
  • AI-native operating is the single biggest cultural and hiring signal at CloudWalk today. Be ready to talk specifically about how you use AI in your daily workflow.
  • The technical stack centers on Elixir, Rust, Python, and TypeScript, with serious depth required in distributed systems, payments correctness, and observability.
  • Most senior engineering roles operate primarily in English; customer-facing, legal, compliance, and finance roles operate primarily in Portuguese. Bilingualism is a strong practical advantage.
  • CloudWalk is not the same company as Cloudwalk Technology, the Chinese facial-recognition firm. Make sure your application makes that distinction clear.
  • The bar is high, the pace is fast, and references are thorough. Honesty, ownership, and shipping evidence matter more than credentials.

About CloudWalk Technology

CloudWalk Inc. is a Brazilian financial technology company founded in 2013 by Luis Silva that has grown into one of Latin America's most ambitious payments and AI startups. Headquartered in Sao Paulo with major engineering hubs in Belo Horizonte and Florianopolis, CloudWalk employs roughly 700 people and reported around R$3 billion in annual revenue heading into 2025. The company reached an approximate $2 billion valuation following its 2022 Series C round led by Coatue, with additional backing from A.Capital and other growth investors. While the company maintains a global outlook and substantial English-language internal documentation, its commercial center of gravity remains Brazil, where it processes roughly R$5 billion in monthly total payments volume across its merchant base. The flagship product, InfinitePay, is a merchant payments platform aimed at small and medium-sized businesses across Brazil. InfinitePay sells point-of-sale terminals (the iconic InfiniteSmart and InfinitePOS devices), a digital banking interface, instant settlement, working-capital advances, and a Pix-native checkout. It competes head-to-head with Stone, PagSeguro (PagBank), Cielo, Rede, and Mercado Pago for Brazil's roughly 20 million active SMBs, a category that has been one of the most contested fintech markets in the world since 2018. CloudWalk's pitch has historically been aggressive pricing, simple onboarding, and fast settlement, but in the last two years the company has explicitly repositioned itself around an AI-native operating model. Internally, every team is encouraged to build or deploy autonomous agents in their daily workflow, and the bar for engineers, designers, and operators is to function more like a one-person company augmented by AI than a traditional employee. That repositioning is most visible in JIM, the conversational AI assistant CloudWalk launched in 2024 for InfinitePay merchants. JIM is built on top of Anthropic's Claude models and is designed to act as a financial copilot for small business owners, answering questions about cash flow, helping with reconciliation, generating invoices, surfacing risk alerts, and increasingly handling support tasks that historically required a human contact center. JIM is a strategic bet, not a side feature. CloudWalk has tied its product roadmap, customer success motion, marketing engine, and even its risk and fraud operations to AI agents, and recent hiring patterns reflect that. The company also runs a meaningful crypto and remittances stack, with stablecoin rails used for cross-border treasury and a long-running interest in on-chain settlement that has shown up in occasional public commentary from leadership. CloudWalk's recent history has been a mix of hyper-growth, profitability discipline, and one publicized retreat. The company attempted a U.S. payments expansion in 2022-2023 and pulled back when unit economics did not match Brazil. That experience pushed the organization to focus on profitable growth in Brazil, ship JIM, and prove that an AI-native operating model could compress costs. By 2024 CloudWalk had crossed into sustained profitability, an unusual milestone among Latin American unicorns of its cohort, and management has since emphasized capital efficiency and AI leverage in nearly every public communication. For job seekers, this matters: CloudWalk today is not a land-grab startup hiring everyone, it is a deliberately small, intense, AI-leveraged team that pays competitively but expects unusually high output per person and a willingness to operate in an environment where workflows are constantly being automated and re-invented. The people side reflects the same intensity. CloudWalk's offices in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte are full-time, in-person environments for many engineering and product roles, with selective remote arrangements for senior contributors and certain risk, design, and growth functions. Working language varies: most senior technical roles operate primarily in English (code, documentation, design reviews, product specs), while customer-facing, legal, compliance, and finance functions are heavily Portuguese. Bilingualism is not officially required for every role, but it is a significant practical advantage, and most successful candidates are comfortable moving between Portuguese and English on a daily basis. Compensation is competitive by Brazilian market standards, frequently includes equity, and the benefits package emphasizes meal allowances, health coverage, and learning budgets typical of top-tier Brazilian tech employers.

Application Process

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    Step 1 - Find the right opening on Lever

    Step 1 - Find the right opening on Lever. CloudWalk publishes its active jobs at jobs.lever.co/cloudwalk and links to that board from cloudwalk.io/careers. As of this writing the board is small and curated, typically under 30 active postings spanning engineering, risk, compliance, finance, design, growth, and legal. Read the posting closely. CloudWalk job descriptions are unusually direct about what the role will own and what the candidate must already have done, and many include explicit language about AI tooling, autonomous agents, and the expectation that you operate as an AI-native professional.

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    Step 2 - Apply directly through Lever

    Step 2 - Apply directly through Lever. Click Apply on the posting, fill in the standard Lever fields (name, email, current company, LinkedIn, portfolio or GitHub if relevant, and a resume upload), and answer any role-specific custom questions. CloudWalk often asks one or two free-text questions about why you are applying and what you have built recently. Treat these as the most important part of the application: vague answers get filtered fast. Upload a clean PDF resume in either English or Portuguese, and match the language of the posting itself when in doubt.

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    Step 3 - Recruiter screen, usually within one to two weeks

    Step 3 - Recruiter screen, usually within one to two weeks. A talent partner will reach out via email (occasionally LinkedIn or WhatsApp for Brazilian candidates) to schedule a 30-minute conversation. This call covers your background, motivation, language comfort, location and remote preferences, compensation expectations, and a high-level sanity check on the role fit. Be honest about your English level and your willingness to be in office in Sao Paulo or Belo Horizonte if the role requires it.

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    Step 4 - Hiring manager interview

    Step 4 - Hiring manager interview. A 45-60 minute conversation with the manager who would own the role, focused on your real work history, the systems you have built or operated, and how you think about the specific problem the team is solving. For engineering roles this often includes a verbal walkthrough of a recent project, with deep follow-up questions on architecture choices, trade-offs, and what you would do differently.

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    Step 5 - Technical assessment or take-home

    Step 5 - Technical assessment or take-home. For most engineering, data, risk, and product roles there is a structured technical step. Engineers typically receive a take-home that takes four to eight hours of focused work, often centered on a payments, fraud, or AI-tooling scenario in the language relevant to the team (Elixir, Rust, Python, or TypeScript). Risk and analytics candidates may receive a SQL or case-style assessment. Design candidates submit a portfolio walkthrough plus a small applied exercise.

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    Step 6 - Technical or panel interviews

    Step 6 - Technical or panel interviews. One to three live sessions covering deep technical knowledge, system design, and collaboration. Engineering panels emphasize how you actually build with AI in your workflow, how you reason about distributed systems and payments correctness, and your debugging instincts. Product and growth panels emphasize prioritization, experimentation, and how you would deploy AI agents inside your function.

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    Step 7 - Founder, executive, or values round

    Step 7 - Founder, executive, or values round. Senior hires almost always meet a member of the executive team, sometimes including Luis Silva for the most senior or strategic roles. Even mid-level hires frequently meet a director or VP. This round is heavily values-focused and includes pointed questions about ownership, intensity, AI-native operating, and your honest view of where the company should go next.

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    Step 8 - References and offer

    Step 8 - References and offer. CloudWalk typically conducts two to three reference calls, often with people you did not list, sourced through their network. If those go well, the recruiter extends a verbal offer followed by a written one through Lever. Negotiation is possible but the ranges are research-based and not unlimited. Equity is commonly part of senior offers.

Resume Tips for CloudWalk Technology

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Lead with measurable outcomes, not responsibilities

Lead with measurable outcomes, not responsibilities. CloudWalk reviewers scan for verbs like shipped, owned, reduced, automated, and grew, paired with specific numbers. Replace vague statements like 'responsible for backend services' with 'owned the payments authorization service handling 4M daily transactions, reduced p99 latency from 320ms to 110ms in two quarters'. Bullet-style accomplishments with quantified impact perform far better in Lever's review interface than dense paragraphs.

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Show your AI-native operating model

Show your AI-native operating model. This is the single biggest differentiator for CloudWalk applications right now. Mention specific AI tools you actually use in your workflow (Claude, Cursor, internal agents you have built, evaluation harnesses, prompt libraries) and describe how they changed your output. A line like 'built an internal Claude-based agent that triages on-call alerts, reduced first-response time by 60 percent' is the kind of evidence the company is explicitly looking for.

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Match the language of the role

Match the language of the role. If the posting is in English, submit your resume in English. If it is in Portuguese (more common for legal, compliance, customer service, and some finance roles), submit it in Portuguese. For senior engineering roles that explicitly say 'fluent English required,' write the entire resume in clear English without translation artifacts.

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Highlight payments, fintech, or regulated-industry experience if you have it

Highlight payments, fintech, or regulated-industry experience if you have it. Brazilian payments specifically is a strong signal: experience with Pix integration, acquiring, sub-acquiring, card networks, anti-money-laundering, or chargeback operations all read as immediately relevant. Adjacent regulated experience (banking, insurance, healthtech) also helps if you can connect it to similar problem patterns.

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List the actual stack you have shipped to production

List the actual stack you have shipped to production. CloudWalk runs heavily on Elixir for many backend services, Rust for performance-sensitive components, Python for data and AI tooling, and TypeScript on the front end. Name the languages, frameworks, and infrastructure you have real production experience with. Resist the urge to list every technology you have ever touched. Two pages of credible specificity beats four pages of breadth.

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Keep formatting ATS-friendly

Keep formatting ATS-friendly. Lever parses cleanly when you use a single-column layout, standard section headers (Experience, Education, Skills, Projects), no embedded text inside images or graphics, and a sans-serif font at 10-12pt. Avoid fancy templates with sidebars, two-column layouts, or icon fonts that can corrupt parsing. Submit as PDF unless the posting specifically requests another format.

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Show signs of long-term thinking

Show signs of long-term thinking. CloudWalk has explicitly turned away from churn-and-burn growth toward profitable, durable engineering. Resumes that show two to four year tenures with deepening responsibility outperform resumes that show six jobs in five years, all things equal. If your tenure pattern looks short, address it briefly in your cover note or in the application questions.

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Include a portfolio link for design, growth, and product roles

Include a portfolio link for design, growth, and product roles. Designers should link a portfolio with at least one fintech, payments, or AI-product case study. Growth candidates benefit from linking a public write-up, a post-mortem, or a metric-rich case study. Product managers should link to a single PRD, launch retrospective, or product spec they can talk to in detail.

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Be careful about company name confusion

Be careful about company name confusion. CloudWalk Inc. (Brazilian fintech, InfinitePay, JIM) is frequently confused with Cloudwalk Technology, the Chinese facial-recognition company. If your background touches biometric AI or computer vision, make it explicit in your application that you understand you are applying to the Brazilian payments company. Recruiters notice when applicants seem to have applied to the wrong CloudWalk.

ATS System: Lever

CloudWalk uses Lever as its applicant tracking system, with all open roles published at jobs.lever.co/cloudwalk and linked from cloudwalk.io/careers. Lever is a modern, recruiter-friendly ATS used by many high-growth technology companies. It parses uploaded resumes into structured fields, supports custom application questions, and gives interviewers a shared workspace for feedback. Compared to older ATS platforms like Taleo or BrassRing, Lever is lightweight on candidates and rarely fails on standard, well-formatted PDF resumes. Most rejections at CloudWalk happen at the human review stage, not at parsing.

  • Apply directly on jobs.lever.co/cloudwalk rather than going through a third-party job board. Direct Lever applications carry the original source attribution and are reviewed first.
  • Submit a single-column PDF resume in English or Portuguese to match the role posting. Lever parses standard PDFs cleanly; avoid two-column layouts, sidebars, embedded images of text, and decorative fonts.
  • Treat the custom application questions as a writing sample. Lever surfaces these prominently in the recruiter view, and many candidates are filtered or advanced based on the quality of these answers alone.
  • Use a real, professional email address that you actually monitor. CloudWalk recruiters communicate through Lever's email pipeline, and applications stall when candidates miss messages.
  • Update your LinkedIn before applying. Lever pulls a linked LinkedIn URL into the recruiter view, and reviewers compare it against your resume for consistency. Discrepancies in dates or titles trigger questions.
  • Apply to one role at a time. Lever shows the recruiter every position you have applied to, and bulk applications across unrelated functions (engineering one day, marketing the next) read as a lack of focus.
  • Withdraw applications cleanly if your situation changes. Lever lets you withdraw inside the candidate portal, and doing so leaves a clean record if you re-apply later.

Interview Culture

CloudWalk's interview culture is direct, technical, and unusually focused on what you have actually built and how you actually work.

The company has publicly committed to an AI-native operating model, and that comes through in interviews at every level. Expect interviewers to ask not just whether you can do the job, but how you would do it with AI agents in your workflow, what you would automate, and where you think a human is still required. Vague answers about AI 'helping with productivity' do not land well. Specific stories about systems you have built, prompts you have iterated on, or evaluation harnesses you have written do. Technical depth is taken seriously. For engineering roles, expect to walk through real systems you have shipped, with follow-up questions that go several layers below the architecture diagram. CloudWalk engineers are expected to have strong opinions about correctness, observability, and trade-offs in payments contexts where errors are expensive and visible. System design rounds tend to focus on payments-relevant scenarios such as ledgering, idempotency, retries, fraud detection pipelines, or AI-agent orchestration. Live coding is less common than take-homes, but pair-programming or whiteboard discussions do happen for some senior roles. The pace of the interview process is generally fast by Brazilian market standards. From recruiter screen to offer is often three to five weeks, sometimes faster for senior or strategic hires. Communication tends to be honest and direct: if you are not advancing, the recruiter will usually tell you within a week, and feedback is sometimes specific. The flip side is that the bar is high and the funnel is narrow. Many qualified candidates do not make it through, and the company is willing to leave roles open rather than fill them with a marginal hire. Culturally, CloudWalk values intensity, ownership, and intellectual honesty. The leadership team, including founder and CEO Luis Silva, has been publicly vocal about wanting people who think like operators of their own one-person company, who push back when they disagree, and who are uncomfortable with bureaucracy. The company is not a fit for candidates who want predictable nine-to-five schedules, heavy process, or extensive layers of management. It is also not a fit for candidates who view AI as a threat to their work rather than as a multiplier. Language dynamics matter. Most senior technical interviews are conducted in English. Customer-facing, legal, compliance, and many finance interviews are in Portuguese. Mixed-language panels are common, where one interviewer speaks English and another switches to Portuguese. Be honest in the recruiter screen about your comfort level. CloudWalk has hired English-only candidates into Brazil-based engineering roles, but the path is harder and works best for senior contributors who can compensate with strong written communication. For the executive round, expect at least one interviewer to be fluent in both languages and to switch seamlessly. Reference checks at CloudWalk are unusually thorough. The talent team often reaches out to backchannel references through the company's own network, in addition to the references you provide. Honesty in your earlier interviews matters because inconsistencies between what you said and what your former colleagues say will be caught. Candidates who have a strong, verifiable track record of shipping serious work and operating with integrity tend to advance smoothly through this stage.

What CloudWalk Technology Looks For

  • Demonstrated AI-native operating model - You actively use AI tools (Claude, Cursor, internal agents) in your daily work and can speak to specific workflows you have automated or augmented. CloudWalk treats this as a baseline expectation across every function, not just engineering.
  • Bias to ship - You can point to recent, concrete things you have built and shipped, with measurable outcomes. CloudWalk's culture rewards builders who own outcomes end-to-end over specialists who optimize narrow craft inside larger machines.
  • Strong technical foundation in your discipline - For engineering: production experience in Elixir, Rust, Python, or TypeScript with real distributed-systems or payments depth. For risk and data: strong SQL, statistics, and a feel for fraud and anti-money-laundering patterns. For design: visible craft and applied judgment in fintech or AI products. For product and growth: a track record of shipping experiments with measurable lift.
  • Comfort with intensity and ambiguity - CloudWalk operates at a fast pace with low bureaucracy. You should be energized by environments where the next priority can shift, where you are expected to figure out the right thing to work on, and where reviews are direct.
  • Bilingual or strong English fluency - Most senior technical roles are English-primary. Customer-facing, legal, and many finance roles are Portuguese-primary. Comfort moving between both languages is a meaningful advantage for almost every role.
  • Payments, fintech, or regulated-industry depth - Not strictly required for every role, but a strong signal. Brazilian payments specifically (Pix, acquiring, sub-acquiring, chargebacks, AML) is the most relevant background, with adjacent regulated experience as a credible second-best.
  • Long-term thinking and tenure - The company has shifted toward durable, profitable growth and prefers candidates whose history shows deepening ownership over years rather than rapid job-hopping for title or pay increases.
  • Intellectual honesty and pushback - Leadership has been explicit about wanting people who disagree well, who admit what they do not know, and who can hold strong opinions while updating on new information.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is CloudWalk the same as the Chinese facial recognition company?
No. CloudWalk Inc. is a Brazilian fintech company founded in 2013 by Luis Silva and headquartered in Sao Paulo. It builds InfinitePay (payment terminals and merchant banking for Brazilian SMBs) and JIM (an AI assistant for small business owners built on Anthropic's Claude). It is unrelated to Cloudwalk Technology, the Chinese facial recognition company. The two are sometimes confused because of the similar name, but they operate in completely different industries, geographies, and ownership structures.
What ATS does CloudWalk use and where do I apply?
CloudWalk uses Lever as its applicant tracking system. All open roles are posted at jobs.lever.co/cloudwalk and linked from the cloudwalk.io/careers page. Apply directly on the Lever board for the cleanest application path. Avoid third-party job aggregators when possible since direct applications are usually reviewed first.
Do I need to speak Portuguese to work at CloudWalk?
It depends on the role. Most senior engineering and many product roles operate primarily in English, and CloudWalk has hired non-Portuguese speakers into these positions. However, customer-facing, legal, compliance, and most finance roles are conducted in Portuguese and effectively require working fluency. For any Brazil-based role, comfort moving between both languages is a meaningful advantage even when not strictly required. Be honest with the recruiter in the initial screen about your language level.
Is CloudWalk fully remote?
No, not fully. CloudWalk operates from offices in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Florianopolis, and many engineering and product roles expect significant in-office presence. Some senior engineering, design, growth, and risk roles are offered as remote within Brazil, and a small number of roles support remote work elsewhere in Latin America. Each posting on Lever specifies the work model. Do not assume remote unless the posting explicitly says so.
What programming languages does CloudWalk's engineering team use?
The primary backend languages are Elixir for many core services, Rust for performance-sensitive and infrastructure components, and Python for data, machine learning, and AI tooling. The front end is TypeScript with React and React Native. AI agent work increasingly leans on Python and TypeScript with Claude as the primary model provider for production AI features like JIM. Strong production experience in any of these languages is competitive for engineering roles.
How long does the CloudWalk interview process take?
Typically three to five weeks from recruiter screen to offer for most roles, sometimes faster for senior or strategic hires. The process generally includes a recruiter screen, a hiring manager interview, a technical assessment or take-home, one to three technical or panel interviews, a founder or executive round, and reference checks. Communication is direct, and candidates who are not advancing usually hear back within a week.
What does AI-native operating mean in practice?
CloudWalk has publicly committed to an operating model where every employee uses AI agents as a routine part of their daily workflow. In practice this means engineers using AI coding assistants and building internal agents, recruiters using AI for sourcing and screening, marketers deploying autonomous campaign tools, customer success building AI agents that resolve tickets, and risk teams running agentic analysis loops. In interviews, expect questions about which AI tools you actually use, what you have automated, and where you think humans still add irreplaceable judgment. Generic answers about AI being helpful do not land. Specific stories about prompts, agents, evaluations, or automated workflows do.
How competitive is CloudWalk's compensation?
CloudWalk is competitive with the top tier of Brazilian technology employers and offers equity for many senior and strategic roles. Cash compensation is generally strong by local market standards, and the benefits package includes meal and food allowances, health and dental coverage, and learning budgets typical of leading Brazilian tech companies. For roles based in Brazil and paid in BRL, expect ranges that compete with Nubank, Mercado Libre, Stone, and other top Brazilian employers. The company does not advertise that it pays U.S. tech salaries, and offers are generally research-based rather than open-ended.
What is JIM and why does it matter for hiring?
JIM is CloudWalk's conversational AI assistant for InfinitePay merchants, launched in 2024 and built on Anthropic's Claude models. It acts as a financial copilot for small business owners, handling questions about cash flow, reconciliation, invoices, risk alerts, and increasingly customer support tasks. JIM matters for hiring because it is the most visible expression of CloudWalk's AI-native strategy and it pulls headcount toward roles that build, evaluate, and operate AI agents. Engineers, designers, product managers, and operations roles that touch JIM directly or indirectly are some of the highest-leverage seats in the company right now.
Did CloudWalk really try to expand to the U.S.?
Yes. CloudWalk attempted a U.S. payments expansion in 2022 and 2023 and pulled back after the unit economics did not match its Brazilian business. Leadership has been candid about this in public commentary and treats it as a learning experience rather than a failure to hide. The retreat refocused the company on profitable growth in Brazil and accelerated the pivot to an AI-native operating model. For candidates, this matters because CloudWalk today is more disciplined about expansion and headcount than it was three years ago, and the company is unlikely to staff aggressively for new geographies in the near term.
Should I mention crypto or stablecoin experience in my application?
Yes, if it is real and relevant. CloudWalk operates a meaningful crypto and remittances stack, including stablecoin rails used for cross-border treasury, and leadership has shown long-running interest in on-chain settlement. Genuine production experience with stablecoins, payment rails, on-chain reconciliation, or treasury automation is a credible signal for several engineering and finance roles. Avoid leading with speculative or trading-focused crypto experience, which is not the company's focus.
What is the dress code and office culture like?
Casual, intense, and informal. CloudWalk offices follow the dress norms typical of Brazilian technology companies, which trend casual. The cultural intensity comes from the work itself, not from formality. Expect long, focused work days in office for many roles, frequent direct feedback, and a strong emphasis on personal ownership over outcomes. The company is not a fit for candidates who want highly structured nine-to-five schedules or layered approval processes.

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