Grupo QuintoAndar | Senior Software Engineer, Backend [Portugal]

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.

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 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.