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WhatsApp - Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Product Generalist

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4 days ago
São Paulo, BrazilStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and launch end-to-end product features across mobile clients and server systems.
  • Develop reusable software components and APIs for backend platforms, payments, and third-party integrations.
  • Solve complex technical problems across the product pillar using appropriate languages and technologies.
  • Set technical direction across multiple teams and own architecture for a major product area.
  • Lead organization-wide initiatives and resolve ambiguity in product definition and technical approach.
  • Drive engineering standards, quality, and technical craft across teams and systems.
  • Mentor senior engineers and influence product, design, data science, operations, and executive stakeholders.
  • Partner with payments, legal, compliance, and local operations teams to deliver reliable and regulation-compliant services in Brazil.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12+ years of relevant programming experience, or 8+ years of experience with a PhD.
  • Experience working cross-functionally to drive solutions and using data analysis to explain technical problems.
  • Experience leading large cross-functional or industry-wide engineering efforts and planning multi-year roadmaps.
  • Experience mentoring and influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
  • Preferred experience building large-scale applications, integrating APIs, and working with large-scale software architectures.
  • Preferred programming experience with C, C++, Java, Swift, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, or Hack.
  • Preferred experience with Brazilian payments, Pix, payment systems, monetization, commerce, or AI/ML products.
  • Preferred experience establishing technical foundations for zero-to-one organizations, setting global technical strategy, and leading distributed teams.
  • Preferred experience with messaging platforms, mobile-first consumer products, and responsible AI practices, including prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration.

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10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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