Director, Software Engineering - WhatsApp

Meta; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Director of Software Engineering for WhatsApp in São Paulo, Brazil. You will lead and grow multiple engineering teams, shaping a bold technical vision for WhatsApp within the Meta ecosystem.

You will build and align multi-team roadmaps with business priorities, and drive strategy that balances ambitious technical investments with product goals. Join a pivotal, zero-to-one effort to expand WhatsApp capabilities in Brazil and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage and support varied teams of engineers delivering one of the highest-priority initiatives across WhatsApp and Meta.
• Define and execute engineering strategy and multi-team roadmaps balancing technical investment and business priorities.
• Establish a shared technical vision across the company (WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger) and ensure all teams are clear on the strategy, the problem to solve, the timeline and the contribution required of them.

Job description

# Director, Software Engineering - WhatsAppSão Paulo, Brazil Engineering+ 1 moreApply nowMore than 3 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. In Brazil, it is also where a great deal of everyday life gets done — people message businesses, coordinate their families, and increasingly send money as easily as they send a message.We are building a new team to take WhatsApp further in that direction. The newly established WhatsApp Services team is focused on making WhatsApp more useful for more of what people already use it for, and on building what comes next.This engineering leader for Brazil will oversee the newly established WhatsApp Services team, treated as a zero-to-one effort so we can move fast, take risks, and build as we go. Staffed and prioritized, like every other WhatsApp team, from day one. Payments on WhatsApp aren’t a bet on paper: live and growing in Brazil; the existing WhatsApp payments engineering team moves across as the foundation.As an engineering leader at WhatsApp, you will use your start-up mindset and your full range of engineering leadership skills to produce elegantly simple products. You’ll be expected to push the boundaries of what’s possible in a mobile app, while sharing in our commitment to quality and attention to detail. This is a role for someone who can hold both the ceiling and the floor: sets an ambitious long-term technical vision for what WhatsApp can become in Brazil.---## Director, Software Engineering - WhatsApp Responsibilities* Build, manage and support varied teams of engineers and engineering managers delivering one of the highest-priority initiatives across WhatsApp and Meta.* Define and execute engineering strategy and multi-team roadmaps that balance technical investment, emerging capabilities and business priorities.* Establish a shared technical vision across the company (WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger) and ensure all teams are clear on the strategy, the problem to solve, the timeline and the contribution required of them.