About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Engineer Manager - Busca e Recomendação based in Brazil.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop two engineering teams, working closely with Product, Design, and Data disciplines to establish priorities, remove obstacles, and drive strong technical and business outcomes.
- Ensure engineering teams consistently deliver high-quality solutions with the appropriate balance of speed, reliability, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Build and maintain a high-performance culture based on ownership, collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Support the growth and development of team members through regular feedback, career conversations, performance management, and individualized development plans.
- Strengthen communication and alignment across different squads and stakeholders, ensuring priorities, dependencies, decisions, and expectations remain clear.
- Track and evolve engineering metrics related to quality, performance, productivity, and delivery effectiveness, using data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Contribute to strategic decisions across the broader technology organization, connecting engineering initiatives with customer needs, business priorities, and measurable impact.
- Help guide technical direction and engineering practices for systems operating at significant scale, with a strong focus on availability, reliability, and sustainable architecture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, combined with a solid background in software development.
- Proven experience managing people and leading software engineering teams, with the ability to develop talent and create a strong team culture.
- Experience working with distributed systems and high-scale, high-availability environments, with a strong understanding of reliability and scalability challenges.
- Knowledge of software architecture, engineering best practices, and technical decision-making, with the ability to engage effectively in technical discussions.
- Experience collaborating within multidisciplinary teams involving Product, Design, Data, and other business or technology stakeholders.
- Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders across different levels of an organization.
- Data-driven approach to decision-making, with the ability to connect engineering metrics and technical choices to customer outcomes and business impact.
- Strong ownership, strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
- Experience with search, recommendation, or relevance systems, including ranking or search engines, is considered a plus.
- Familiarity with experimentation methodologies such as A/B testing and user-experience optimization is an advantage.
Conditions
- Competitive compensation aligned with the market.
- Health insurance and dental insurance.
- Private pension plan.
- Flexible benefits designed to adapt to individual needs.
- Meal and food allowance.
- Financial counseling and support.
- Employee advantages and discount club.
- Home office allowance.
- Mobility allowance.
- Childcare support.
- Life insurance.
- Extended leave policies.
- Programs supporting sports, quality of life, health, and wellbeing.
- Payroll-deducted loans with reduced interest rates.
- Flexible, predominantly remote working model with occasional in-person team gatherings when needed.
- Opportunity to lead engineering teams working on high-scale search and recommendation challenges with significant customer and business impact.
- Inclusive and collaborative environment focused on diversity, equity, innovation, and high performance.