Senior Staff Software Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Brazil

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple Enterprise engineering domains, ensuring solutions align with business priorities and future growth.
• Design, prototype, and guide the implementation of highly complex, scalable, secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant software systems.
• Lead critical technical initiatives from discovery through delivery, connecting architecture and execution to measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into technical roadmaps, architectural recommendations, and investment decisions.
• Identify systemic architectural risks, performance limitations, reliability concerns, and scalability challenges, developing durable solutions that strengthen overall platform health.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, architectural patterns, development practices, quality expectations, and technical guardrails across teams.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, helping teams navigate trade-offs across delivery speed, scalability, security, cost, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Mentor senior engineers through technical coaching, knowledge sharing, architectural guidance, and support on complex engineering decisions.
• Develop approaches and best practices for AI-assisted software development and automation, promoting responsible adoption while improving engineering quality and productivity.
• Influence engineering culture by modeling accountability, pragmatic decision-making, collaboration, continuous improvement, and thoughtful technical leadership.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant responsibility for architecture and technical direction of complex production systems.
• Deep expertise in modern software architecture, distributed systems, microservices, system design, data modeling, APIs, and cloud-native application development.
• Extensive experience designing, building, coding, and operating high-throughput, scalable, secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant production applications.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, modern databases, service-oriented architectures, containerization, observability, automated testing, CI, and CD.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy and align architectural direction across multiple engineering teams and stakeholder groups.
• Strong judgment when evaluating trade-offs involving system performance, reliability, security, cost, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience building or evolving B2B SaaS, vertical SaaS, or comparable platforms that serve increasingly sophisticated customer segments and Enterprise-scale requirements.
• Proven experience establishing AI-assisted development strategies, practices, and guardrails that improve developer efficiency, engineering quality, and responsible automation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Exceptional technical judgment and the ability to create clarity in ambiguous environments with evolving requirements and constraints.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Pragmatic, product-oriented mindset with the ability to balance technical excellence, customer value, and business impact.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder-management skills, with a proven ability to lead complex initiatives without relying on direct authority.
• Commitment to mentoring engineers, sharing knowledge, and raising technical standards across an organization.
• Intellectual curiosity, resilience, and the ability to quickly develop expertise across unfamiliar systems, technologies, and business domains.

Benefits:

• Compensation starting at $9,000 USD per month.
• Remote work flexibility while being based in Brazil.
• Paid holidays and flexible scheduled time off that can be taken as needed.
• A MacBook provided from day one to support your work.
• $500 workspace stipend to help create an effective home-office environment.
• Equity participation in a rapidly growing, venture-backed organization.
• Opportunity to work on complex, enterprise-scale technology challenges with significant technical ownership and influence.
• A collaborative, inclusive environment that values innovation, big ideas, mentorship, and continuous professional growth.
• Exposure to modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development, automation, cloud technologies, and large-scale distributed systems.
• Global collaboration with teammates across multiple countries and cultures.
• Updated resume translated into English is required for consideration.
• Applicants must currently reside in Brazil and provide an active LinkedIn profile.