Summary
Bárbara Hartmann is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput financial and subscription systems. She led design and delivery of Nubank’s Pix instant payments platform, helping it scale to over a million transactions per day, and has since applied that payments and integrations expertise at HelloFresh and now at Gigs, a startup building Stripe-like billing for phone plans. Known for pragmatic system design and performance troubleshooting, she has repeatedly shipped features that serve millions of users, including tax report generation and WhatsApp Payments integrations. Comfortable across the stack, Bárbara’s background spans Java, Ruby on Rails and API-first architectures from her ThoughtWorks and early-career work, bringing disciplined engineering practices to fast-moving teams. She pairs production focus with a collaborative mindset—having spoken at conferences and mentored across hiring processes—so she balances hands-on coding with technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technician Computer Programming, Computer Technician Computer Programming at IFSUL - Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense
Technologist Higher Education Program (Tecnólogo) Systems Analysis and Development, Technologist Higher Education Program (Tecnólogo) Systems Analysis and Development at Unisinos
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English