Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer

QuintoAndar; Brasil; Remote; BRL 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Profit sharing

Meal allowance

Health insurance

Dental plan

Life insurance

Childcare subsidy

Home office allowance

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Birthday/holiday time off

Benefits Club discounts

Education discounts

Job summary

Grupo QuintoAndar is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive technical execution in a remote-first setup. You will contribute to scalable, real-time AI-powered experiences and distributed systems across diverse teams.

You will lead architecture discussions, guide high-impact projects, and shape the engineering culture while enjoying the flexibility to work from home in Brazil or our São Paulo office if desired.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience with distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of modern software architecture and data consistency.
• Experience building data-intensive applications with ML/AI features at scale.
• Ability to articulate engineering trade-offs clearly (simplicity vs. flexibility).
• Proven collaboration skills and inclusive engineering leadership.
• Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills (mandatory).

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of high-volume, high-concurrency distributed systems.
• Architect scalable, low-latency services and microservices orchestration.
• Drive AI/ML initiatives and architecture decisions at scale.
• Collaborate across teams to remove roadblocks and optimize performance.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

AI/ML systems

Fluent Portuguese

English communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

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, you will be a core driver of our technical execution. Here, you won't just "maintain old systems" or "take tickets." We are an organization of builders guided by deep technical density. You will use our Leadership Principles, like Dive Deep and Make it Great, to solve high-impact distribution problems and build the systems of 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, designing highly scalable, resilient systems capable of supporting low-latency conversational journeys, heavy microservices orchestration, and real-time ML processing.

Our Tech Stack: We work with Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python, React, and more, primarily hosted on AWS. Our daily workflow also incorporates various AI tools, including Claude Code.

Don't worry if you haven't mastered our exact stack. We value strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and an engineering mindset over specific technology experience.

Position & Technical Challenges:

We hire Staff Software Engineers through a unified selection process for multiple engineering teams.

At the final stage, you'll have the opportunity to explore which team best matches your experience and interests, alongside our hiring needs.

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years of experience in software development, leading the delivery of high-volume, high-concurrency, and mission-critical distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of modern software architecture paradigms, distributed data consistency, fault tolerance, and system optimization.
• Understanding of data-intensive applications and readiness to build architectures that support Machine Learning/AI features at scale.
• Proven ability to analyze and articulate engineering trade-offs concretely (e.g., simplicity vs. flexibility, velocity vs. reliability, build vs. buy).
• Demonstrated capability to remove barriers to collaboration, conduct difficult structural conversations, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
• Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills (mandatory).

You'll stand out if you:

• Have prior experience designing architectures that natively integrate with LLMs, multi-agent AI systems, or heavy data pipelines.
• Have a strong background in FinOps and cost-optimization for high-throughput cloud environments.
• Have solid experience migrating legacy monolithic structures into highly decoupled, event-driven architectures.

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Profit sharing
• Meal allowance
• Health insurance
• Dental plan
• Life insurance
• Childcare subsidy and Atypical Parenthood subsidy
• Wellhub
• 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
• Reading kit for children – PlayKids

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.