Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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 Senior 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 Senior 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build at Scale: Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and resilient microservices capable of handling our 50M+ monthly accesses and high-concurrency environments.
• AI-First Integration: Actively participate in the architectural evolution of our platform, paving the road to integrate robust backend systems with our new AI/LLM conversational capabilities and massive data ecosystems.
• End-to-End Ownership: Be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle: definition, development, testing, production, and maintenance. Adopt an "owner's mindset", creating observability and taking proactive actions on post-mortems.
• Quality Guardian: Be a guardian of your team's delivery quality by reinforcing the adoption of excellent software development practices, participating rigorously in code and design reviews.
• Mentorship: Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, raising the technical bar of your team and sharing knowledge across our teams.

What we are looking for:

• Solid experience building and evolving software architecture from the ground up for high-volume, distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of database design, evolution, and complex data modeling.
• Skilled in creating and maintaining RESTful APIs, with a strong grasp of system integration.
• Experience with tools and practices for software monitoring, observability, and performance tracking (Datadog, New Relic, etc.).
• A true builder mindset: strong problem-solving skills, seeking to learn, and aiming to deliver real impact through high-quality, data-driven software.
• Fluency in Portuguese and advanced English.

You'll stand out if you:

• Have experience with cloud service platforms (AWS, GCP).
• Have knowledge of containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Understand event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Have prior experience or strong interest in integrating applications with LLMs, AI agents, or heavy data pipelines.

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.

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 (code live case)
• Technicals Interviews (architecture live cases)
• 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.