Grupo QuintoAndar | Senior Software Engineer

About this role

<p><strong>About Grupo QuintoAndar</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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:<a href="https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/"> </a><a href="https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/">https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About working at QuintoAndar:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Possibility of learning;</li> <li>Opportunity to work in a team that seeks to use the best practices and tools in the market;</li> <li>Work in an informal environment with a horizontal structure;</li> <li>Being part of a team working on a high-impact project that affects the lives of thousands of people.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Location &amp; Remote Work</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Language</strong></p> <p>This job description is written in English because for that position you will need it for communications with coworkers and suppliers who are from worldwide, for tools and internal materials as well.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Hiring Process Stages</strong></p> <p>Our selection process currently lasts an average of 40 days, from application to completion of the assessment. Going through:</p> <ul> <li>Application</li> <li>Interview with Recruiters</li> <li>Tech Screening with Engineering Team (Coding Interview)</li> <li>Technicals Interviews (Architecture live cases)</li> <li>Offer</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>These are the Senior Software Engineer responsibilities at QuintoAndar:</p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex software issues. Be part of the decision-making process for the evolution of our product and business;</li> <li>Work with Agile methodologies and participate in ceremonies to contribute to team process improvements;</li> <li>Be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle: definition, development, testing, production, and maintenance;</li> <li>Be a guardian of your team's delivery quality by reinforcing the adoption of good software development practices, and proposing improvements to our processes; participate in code reviews and design reviews;</li> <li>Succeed in a wide range of complex situations across multiple axes (scale, resilience, fault tolerance, etc.);</li> <li>Handle incidents, troubleshoot, and debug software issues with a learning mindset. Create post mortems and take actions to avoid similar incidents in the future;</li> <li>Implement and maintain scalable and reliable software architecture, as well as design patterns;</li> <li>Actively improve the way we build software and pave the road to solve new challenges;</li> <li>Mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and support;</li> <li>Participate in code reviews and ensure high code quality.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Seniority Level:</strong></p> <p>We want to have as many talented people as possible in our team. So, although this position is described as “Senior Software Engineer”, you can apply even if you don’t consider yourself as a senior professional yet. It’s important to us to create a qualified talent poll and we will definitely reach out to you if we think you can add to our teams, no matter what seniority level you are today.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <p><strong>What we are looking for:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven experience with Agile development practices, including Scrum or Kanban;</li> <li>Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin, or JavaScript;</li> <li>Strong understanding of database design and evolution;</li> <li>Experience designing and evolving software architecture from the ground up;</li> <li>Skilled in creating RESTful APIs;</li> <li>Experience with tools and practices for software monitoring, observability, and performance tracking;</li> <li>Solid software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, and deployment automation, code reviews, design documentation;</li> <li>Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail; people that are seeking to learn and deliver real impact through high-quality data-driven and structured software, valuing work-life balance;</li> <li>Fluency in Portuguese and advanced English - we usually use English to write our code, documentation, tools, reference materials and eventually talk to partners and co-workers from other countries.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>You'll stand out if you:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Has experience mentoring a team of software engineers;</li> <li>Already developed scalable client-server mobile applications;</li> <li>Have experience with cloud service platforms and its services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc);</li> <li>Understand how modern CD/CI works;</li> <li>Have some knowledge on containers and container-orchestration (eg. Kubernetes);</li> <li>Know how to test and tune scalability;</li> <li>Know computer theory, including optimization of algorithms and distributed systems;</li> <