Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Software Engineer, Backend [Portugal]

The role

You will design, develop, and maintain highly scalable microservices and integrate backend systems with AI/LLM conversational capabilities. You will be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle and mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and resilient microservices.
• Participate in the architectural evolution to integrate backend systems with AI/LLM capabilities.
• Manage the entire software development lifecycle including definition, development, testing, production, and maintenance.
• Create observability and take proactive actions on post-mortems.
• Reinforce software development practices through code and design reviews.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

Required qualifications

• Solid experience building and evolving software architecture for high-volume, distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of database design, evolution, and complex data modeling.
• Skilled in creating and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Experience with tools for software monitoring, observability, and performance tracking.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Fluency in Portuguese.
• Advanced English.

Nice to have

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

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

Before you apply

• Complete the application step.
• Watch for emails from the @quintoandar.com.br domain.
• Hiring process includes technical CV screening, People Interview, Tech Screening (code live case), and Technicals Interviews (architecture live cases).

About the company

Grupo QuintoAndar is the largest real estate ecosystem in Latin America, with brands and solutions across six countries. Their purpose is to help people love where they live by making the housing journey simpler.