[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer II @Grupo QuintoAndar

Role Description

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.
• 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.
• 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. You will partner with Engineering Directors, Tech Leads, and Staff Engineers to:

• Identify long-term structural bottlenecks.
• Establish architectural roadmaps.
• Drive multi-quarter technical initiatives from inception to global impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering high-volume, high-concurrency, and mission-critical distributed systems at organizational scale.

Requirements

• 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).

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