Engineering Lead - AI Platform

Neon; Brasil; On-site; BRL 334,800 - 446,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental Assistance

Meal Voucher/Food Voucher

Life Insurance

Home Office Allowance

Gympass: gyms and online classes

Child Care Assistance

Betterfly: wellness platform

Psychological Assistance Program

Massage

Ally: partnerships for discounts

Mobility

Coworking spaces

Job summary

A fintech leader in Brazil is seeking a senior multidisciplinary leader for their AI Platform. This role involves driving product strategy, overseeing technical solutions, and requires hands-on experience in AI infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical foundation and proven leadership in product development. The position offers various benefits including health assistance and a home office allowance.

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives from ideation through to final delivery.
• Act as the de-facto Product Manager for the AI Platform.
• Design and implement robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Monitor results and impact metrics for the platform.

Skills

Applied AI Experience

Strong Technical Foundation

Product Leadership Experience

Evaluation Expertise

Familiarity with AI Tooling

Business Acumen

Adaptability

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GitHub

SQL

Job description

About Neon

Neon was born to reduce inequalities; we believe that through simpler and fairer financial paths people deserve a bright future. With more than 23 million customers, it has become one of the largest fintechs in the country, offering a full portfolio of debit and credit cards with no annual fee, personal loans, payroll, investments, cashback, and various payment methods designed for Brazilian workers.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a senior, multidisciplinary leader to define the architecture, roadmap, and vision for Neon’s internal AI Platform. This role can be a hands‑on Staff Engineer or a management position, depending on the candidate’s profile and expertise. The AI Platform is the cornerstone of our strategy to deliver on Neon’s core mission: paving a path to a better financial future for Brazilians by enabling teams to build, deploy, and operate impactful AI applications.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Lead End‑to‑End Execution: Drive initiatives from ideation and technical discovery through to final delivery. As the lead engineer, you will write code, lead design reviews, ship to production, respond to incidents, and unblock teammates.
• Define Product Strategy & Vision: Act as the de‑facto Product Manager for the AI Platform. Convert ambiguity into clarity, define product direction, make critical investment and prioritization decisions, and communicate the roadmap to stakeholders across the company.
• Architect & Build: Design and implement robust, scalable technical solutions. Translate business needs into technical specifications, making key decisions on architecture, performance, and cost‑efficiency while considering broader team and company objectives.
• Drive Adoption & Impact: Monitor results and impact metrics—adoption, usage, performance, and value generated—and iterate quickly on solutions to ensure the platform effectively resolves customer pain points and delivers business impact.

What We’re Looking For (Qualifications)

• Applied AI Experience: Direct, hands‑on experience building, deploying, and operating products or platforms powered by modern AI infrastructure (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.).
• Strong Technical Foundation: Proven expertise in software engineering with hands‑on experience implementing scalable, AI‑driven solutions in cloud environments (preferably AWS & Kubernetes).
• Product Leadership Experience: Track record of driving product decisions and managing a roadmap with effective discovery and prioritization.
• Evaluation Expertise: Experience designing and/or running application‑level evaluations and integrating them with A/B testing and model evaluation frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI Tooling: Experience with open‑source AI toolkits and frameworks such as LangFuse, LiteLLM, Agno, etc.
• Business Acumen: Ability to connect technical rationale with business objectives, translating technology into tangible impact.
• Adaptability: Comfortable navigating collaborative environments of high ambiguity, with a genuine interest in applied AI and willingness to engage in continuous learning.

Bonus Points For

• A clear perspective on how to best integrate AI into the software development lifecycle, including concepts like context management and spec‑driven development.
• Experience with multi‑agent architectures in production environments.
• Background in fintech, high‑scale digital products, or technological modernization contexts.
• Deep experience with technologies we rely on at Neon: AWS, GitHub, and SQL.

What We Are Not Looking For (For This Role)

• We specifically seek candidates who have experience shipping production AI systems at scale in a commercial setting; academic background and personal side projects are welcome as demonstrations of domain expertise, but not sufficient alone.

Benefits

• Medical and Dental Assistance
• Meal Voucher/Food Voucher
• Life Insurance
• Home Office Allowance
• Gympass: gyms and online classes
• Child Care Assistance
• Betterfly: wellness platform
• Psychological Assistance Program
• Massage
• Ally: partnerships for discounts at pharmacies, markets, and others
• Mobility
• Coworking spaces (according to internal policy)

LGPD at Neon

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