Grupo QuintoAndar | Head of Engineering

Grupo QuintoAndar; Brasil; Remote; BRL 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Home office allowance

Childcare subsidy

Extended parental leave

Discounts at educational institutions

Job summary

Grupo QuintoAndar, Latin America's leading real estate ecosystem, seeks a Head of Engineering to shape strategy, scale systems, and build an organization of builders. You will guide AI-first initiatives, architecture, and multi-cloud/microservices, collaborating with C-level and product leadership.

You will lead 50+ engineers across Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python, React on AWS, champion a high-ownership culture, and drive scalable, low-latency, data-intensive platforms while balancing cost

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in senior leadership.
• Experience scaling engineering teams (50+ engineers).
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture and data-intensive applications.
• Ability to navigate executive-level trade-offs (CapEx vs OpEx, velocity vs reliability).
• Talent attraction and building an inclusive, high-ownership culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization and partner with C-Level and Product Leadership to align technical roadmap with business goals.
• Oversee multiple engineering verticals and mentor Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
• Drive an AI-first transformation and scalable, low-latency architectures on AWS.
• Champion cost-aware engineering practices (FinOps) and ensure reliability across services.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Skills

12+ years exp

Senior leadership

Scale teams

Architectural acumen

Trade-off decisions

Cross-cultural leadership

Portuguese fluency

English fluency

Tools

AWS

Claude Code

LLM tooling

Microservices

Job description

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 the Head of Engineering, you will be the visionary and organizational architect behind our technical execution. Here, you won't just manage teams—you will build an organization of builders. Guided by deep technical density and our Leadership Principles, like Dive Deep and Make it Great, you will define the engineering strategy to solve high-impact distribution problems and scale our systems for the next decade.

We believe that technology scales execution, but leadership scales culture and judgment. You will be the executive force driving our AI-First pivot, ensuring our engineering organization is structured and equipped to design highly scalable, resilient systems capable of supporting low-latency conversational journeys, heavy microservices orchestration, and real-time ML processing.

You will lead teams operating with Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python, React, and more, primarily hosted on AWS. More importantly, you will champion our evolution into an AI-augmented engineering culture, driving the adoption of tools like Claude Code and multi-agent systems to multiply our developer productivity. While you won't be writing code daily, your technical depth must be sharp enough to spar with Staff and Principal engineers, guiding them through complex architectural trade-offs.

Position & Strategic Challenges

As the Head of Engineering, you will partner directly with the C-Level and Product Leadership to align our technical roadmap with our business goals. You will oversee multiple engineering verticals, mentoring Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, and evolving our organizational design to eliminate silos, increase deployment velocity, and maintain extreme reliability.

What we are looking for:

12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in senior leadership roles (managing managers, Directors, and Staff/Principal engineers) in high-growth or enterprise tech environments.

Track record of scaling organizations: Proven experience scaling engineering teams (50+ engineers) while raising the bar for technical excellence and operational health.

Architectural acumen: Deep understanding of modern software architecture paradigms, distributed data consistency, and data-intensive applications. You must be able to ask the right questions to ensure architectures can support Machine Learning/AI features at immense scale.

Strategic trade-offs: Proven ability to navigate executive-level trade-offs (e.g., CapEx vs. OpEx, velocity vs. reliability, org structure optimization, build vs. buy).

Culture & Talent: Demonstrated capability to attract top-tier talent, conduct complex structural changes, and foster an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture.

Communication: Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills (mandatory) to operate seamlessly in a global tech context.

You'll stand out if you:

Have successfully led an engineering organization through a major technological paradigm shift, specifically an AI-centric transformation or embedding LLMs/multi-agent systems into core product architecture.

Have executive-level expertise in FinOps, driving engineering efficiency and cloud cost-optimization across a massive AWS footprint.

Have a battle-tested background in steering the organizational and technical migration of legacy monolithic structures into highly decoupled, event-driven architectures.

Important

• All communication will be conducted via email, so please stay tuned for our messages and release the domain @quintoandar.com.br to ensure our emails are not sent to spam.

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:

• Application
• Technical CV screening
• People Interview with Recruiters
• Tech Screening with Engineering Team (archicteture live case)
• Technicals Interviews (code live case, architecture live case and tech leadership)
• Offer
• Profit sharing
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Childcare subsidy and Atypical Parenthood subsidy
• Home office allowance
• Employee assistance program (mental health, social, legal, and financial support)
• Extended parental leave
• Day off on birthday, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day
• Benefits Club (discounts on everyday services)
• Discounts at educational institutions

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 .