Head of Engineering (Women Applicants Only)

About Grupo QuintoAndar

We are Grupo QuintoAndar, the largest real estate ecosystem in Latin America. Guided by a shared purpose of helping people love where they live, we have a diversified portfolio of brands and solutions across different countries in Latin America, covering all phases of the housing journey. We also have a Technology Hub in Portugal. We develop technology and innovation to transform and enhance the overall living experience.

With the support of a world-class team of investors and advisors, including Kaszek, Qualcomm, General Atlantic, and SoftBank, Grupo QuintoAndar is currently valued at over USD 5.1 billion and continues to grow year over year.

Here, you will work with top professionals in the market, in an environment that breathes innovation, collaboration, and high performance. To learn more about our story, visit: https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/.

Why is this position affirmatively focused on women?

At Grupo QuintoAndar, we are committed to promoting gender diversity across our teams. We aim to increase the representation of women in strategic roles within our technical teams, and we believe wethisn be achieved through targeted opportunities and intentional actions. This is part of a broader plan to strengthen an equitable culture in various aspects.
It is essential to highlight the situation, our hiring process for this position remains unchanged in terms of stages and evaluation methods.

Location & Remote Work for technology and remote-first roles
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 offices or partner coworking spaces, up to twice a week.

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:
1. Applied
2. People Interview
3. Tech Screening: System Design 1
4. System Design 2
5. Leadership & Management
6. Offer

About the Role

At QuintoAndar, we believe that diverse leadership drives true innovation. As a Head of Engineering for our Fintech division, you will lead a strategic and complex organization responsible for building high-scale, secure, and resilient financial products that impact millions of users. On top of a strong technical background, we are looking for a leader who excels at navigating complex business ecosystems, nurturing talent, and fostering an inclusive culture.

Your Impact:

• Drive Strategic Execution: Lead and inspire a large engineering organization to deliver critical financial solutions, ensuring high availability and high-quality execution at scale.

• Shape the Technical Vision: Define and co-create the multi-year technical strategy for our financial products, balancing business growth with regulatory requirements and system resilience.

• Foster Engineering Excellence: Establish durable technical standards for security, data privacy, and architecture that enhance innovation across multiple collaborative teams.

• Develop Tomorrow’s Leaders: Act as a leader —actively coaching, mentoring, and developing other Engineerings and Staff Engineers, while designing a healthy and effective organizational structure.

• Scale the Organization: Cultivate a strong hiring strategy, acting as an ambassador to attract, welcome, and retain critical senior talent.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Solid experience managing engineering teams and developing other leaders/ stakeholders.

• A strong background in software engineering, with experience in high-scale, mission-critical systems or distributed architectures.

• Experience navigating the complexities of financial products, transactions, payment methods, credit, or regulated environments (Bacen/LGPD).

• A proven track record of owning, planning, and delivering long-term strategic technical roadmaps.

• Professional fluency in both English and Portuguese.
  
  Note: We know that excellent leaders come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the criteria above (such as direct experience in Fintech, but you have led other highly complex back-end environments), we highly encourage you to apply!

Requirements

• Have strong knowledge of computer theory, including optimization of algorithms and distributed systems.
• Have already developed scalable client-server mobile applications.
• Have already built winning Products or Platforms on successful companies.
• Have some experience with AWS services;
• Have some knowledge in Docker, modern CDs/CIs (Jenkins, Travis, Circle, Drone, ...);
• Know how to test and tune scalability.

Important

• Our hiring process starts with the application! If you truly want to be part of our team, please complete this step of the process. We analyze all candidates individually and provide feedback to all applicants.
• 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.

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.