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Brasil
Remote only
About Grupo QuintoAndar
Grupo QuintoAndar is the largest real estate ecosystem in Latin America, with brands and solutions across six countries.
Our purpose is to help people love where they live by making the housing journey simpler, from finding a home to managing life in it.
We’re also investing R$ 2 billion in technology and AI over the next two years, expanding our engineering capabilities and developing more conversational product experiences. To learn more about our story, visit: https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/.
Location & Remote Work
Our technology team operates under a "remote-first" model, which means we work from home and can live anywhere in Brazil. We also offer the option of working from our São Paulo office. Furthermore, we offer the Work From Anywhere program, allowing you to work from any country for up to 90 days a year, ensuring you have the flexibility to do the best work of your career.
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer II, you will be a principal catalyst of our technical strategy and architectural evolution across multiple engineering domains. Here, you won't just "maintain old systems" or "take tickets." We are an organization of builders guided by deep technical density. Embodying our Leadership Principles—such as Dive Deep, Make it Great, and Aim High—you will untangle our most critical cross-organizational challenges, set company-wide architectural directions, and build the resilient foundation for our next decade.
We believe that technology scales execution, but senior talent scales judgment. You will be at the forefront of our AI-First pivot, defining systemic architectural patterns capable of supporting low-latency conversational journeys, heavy multi-agent orchestration, complex distributed event streams, and real-time ML processing at company scale. You will shape the technical bar, translate ambiguous business vision into concrete execution roadmaps, and establish engineering policies that empower squads across the company to build with high velocity and zero compromise on reliability.
Our Tech Stack: We work with Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python, React, and more, primarily hosted on AWS. Our daily workflow natively incorporates advanced AI tooling, including Claude Code.
We care far more about your architectural vision, systems thinking, and technical leadership than your syntax familiarity with our exact stack.
Position & Technical Challenges:
Staff Software Engineer II roles operate with cross-organizational scope, addressing technical complexity that spans multiple domains, core platforms, and business-critical systems. Through our unified selection process, we evaluate systemic impact, architectural depth, and cultural leadership. You will partner with Engineering Directors, Tech Leads, and Staff Engineers to identify long-term structural bottlenecks, establish architectural roadmaps, and drive multi-quarter technical initiatives from inception to global impact.
What we are looking for:
12+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of architecting and delivering high-volume, high-concurrency, and mission-critical distributed systems at organizational scale.
Cross-Organizational Architectural Ownership: Proven ability to define architectural roadmaps, shape engineering policies, and guide multi-team distributed systems through long-term technical evolution.
Systemic Problem Solving: Demonstrated capability in breaking down highly ambiguous, company-level technical problems into actionable execution plans while managing trade-offs across reliability, cost, complexity, and velocity.
Technical Multiplier & Mentorship: Experience formally mentoring Senior and Staff Engineers, raising the technical bar, leading technical guilds or working groups, and fostering an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.
Consensus & Bridge Building: Exceptional ability to align multiple autonomous teams on unified technical strategies, conduct challenging structural discussions, and resolve complex technical conflicts across squads and business units.
Distributed & AI-Ready Systems: Deep architectural expertise in distributed data consistency, asynchronous event-driven designs, fault tolerance, and data-intensive backends prepared for high-throughput AI/ML integration.
Communication: Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills (mandatory).
You'll stand out if you:
Have direct experience architecting enterprise-grade platforms supporting autonomous multi-agent systems, real-time LLM inference pipelines, or massive data-streaming ecosystems.
Have demonstrated success driving major legacy migrations and decoupling mission-critical monoliths into distributed architectures without downtime or business disruption.
Possess deep expertise in cloud economics and FinOps, successfully implementing organizational cost-governance and capacity-planning frameworks.
Actively engage in tech communities, open-source projects, or industry publications, championing software engineering excellence at scale.
Hiring Process Stages
The stages of our hiring processes aim to assess your experiences and allow you to meet our teams and explore career opportunities. They are structured as follows:
Benefits
Diversity & Inclusion at Grupo QuintoAndar
We value diversity and want everyone to feel welcome here, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristic. All our job openings are open to all individuals!
You'll notice there are some diversity questions in the application form. For affirmative action roles, this information may be used to verify your alignment with the target audience for the opportunity. In such cases, it may be used for elimination purposes. For non-affirmative action roles, this data will be used anonymously, exclusively to monitor and improve our inclusion practices in the hiring process, and will have no impact on your application.
Privacy and Data Protection
The Grupo QuintoAndar operates in compliance with privacy and data protection laws, including, but not limited to, the Brazilian General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD) (Law No. 13,709/2018), and ensures the security of your data. To learn more, please access our Privacy Notice for Candidates. For questions or to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact us through our Service Channel.
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