Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer II
Grupo QuintoAndar3 days ago
Remote, BrazilStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define cross-organizational architectural roadmaps and technical strategies across multiple engineering domains.
- Drive multi-quarter initiatives involving core platforms and business-critical distributed systems.
- Establish engineering policies and align autonomous teams on unified technical direction.
- Design resilient systems supporting distributed data consistency, asynchronous event-driven architectures, fault tolerance, and high-throughput AI/ML integration.
- Translate ambiguous business and technical challenges into actionable execution plans while balancing reliability, cost, complexity, and velocity.
- Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers, lead technical guilds or working groups, and raise the engineering bar.
- Build consensus across squads and business units and resolve complex structural technical conflicts.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience architecting and delivering high-volume, high-concurrency, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Proven cross-organizational architectural ownership, including defining roadmaps, shaping engineering policies, and guiding long-term technical evolution.
- Demonstrated ability to solve highly ambiguous, company-level technical problems and manage reliability, cost, complexity, and velocity trade-offs.
- Experience formally mentoring Senior and Staff Engineers and fostering an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.
- Deep expertise in distributed data consistency, asynchronous event-driven designs, fault tolerance, and data-intensive backends prepared for AI/ML integration.
- Exceptional consensus-building and communication skills across autonomous teams and business units.
- Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills are mandatory.
- Preferred experience includes multi-agent systems, real-time LLM inference pipelines, large-scale data streaming, legacy migrations, cloud economics and FinOps, and participation in technical communities or open-source projects.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere in Brazil, with an option to work from the São Paulo office.
- Work From Anywhere program allowing work from any country for up to 90 days per year.
- Competitive salary and profit sharing.
- Meal allowance, health insurance, dental plan, life insurance, childcare and atypical parenthood subsidies, Wellhub, and home office allowance.
- Employee assistance program covering mental health, social, legal, and financial support.
- Extended parental leave and days off for birthdays, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.
- Benefits Club discounts, educational institution discounts, and a children’s reading kit from PlayKids.
About Grupo QuintoAndar
Grupo QuintoAndar builds a digital real estate ecosystem across Latin America, spanning rental and sales marketplaces, brokerage, property management, classifieds portals, SaaS for brokers, and housing-related financial services. It serves renters, owners, and agents with brands including QuintoAndar, Casa Mineira, Benvi, Imovelweb, Zonaprop, VivaAnuncios, and Inmuebles24, generating revenue from brokerage/marketplace fees, subscriptions, and financial products. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the company is privately held and active in multiple Latin American markets.