Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer II

Grupo QuintoAndar; Brasil; Remote; BRL 300,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Grupo QuintoAndar is seeking a Staff Software Engineer II in a remote-first role based in Brazil. You will shape architectural strategy across domains, guide multi-team initiatives, and mentor senior engineers, establishing scalable, AI-enabled systems.

Strong leadership and communication in Portuguese and English are essential for driving engineering excellence at scale. You will act as a principal catalyst of technical strategy, partnering with directors and staff engineers to define roadmaps,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven ability to define architectural roadmaps and guide multi-team initiatives.
• Experience mentoring Senior and Staff Engineers and fostering high-performance culture.
• Strong cross-organizational alignment, governance, and collaboration.
• Expertise in distributed, data-intensive systems with AI/ML readiness.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English (mandatory).

Responsibilities

• Define company-wide architectural directions and roadmaps across domains.
• Lead multi-team initiatives spanning core platforms and critical systems.
• Mentor senior engineers, raise technical standards, and drive engineering guilds.
• Translate ambiguous business goals into concrete execution plans and roadmaps.
• Drive patterns for scalable, AI-enabled architectures and data-driven backends.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Distributed systems

AI/ML readiness

Mentorship

Communication

Portuguese & English fluency

Job description

Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer II

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:

• 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 .

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