Grupo QuintoAndar | Head of Engineering

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 the Head of Engineering, you will be the visionary and organizational architect behind our technical execution. Here, you won't just manage teams—you will build an organization of builders. Guided by deep technical density and our Leadership Principles, like Dive Deep and Make it Great , you will define the engineering strategy to solve high-impact distribution problems and scale our systems for the next decade. We believe that technology scales execution, but leadership scales culture and judgment. You will be the executive force driving our AI-First pivot, ensuring our engineering organization is structured and equipped to design highly scalable, resilient systems capable of supporting low-latency conversational journeys, heavy microservices orchestration, and real-time ML processing. Our Tech Stack & Culture You will lead teams operating with Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python, React, and more, primarily hosted on AWS. More importantly, you will champion our evolution into an AI-augmented engineering culture, driving the adoption of tools like Claude Code and multi-agent systems to multiply our developer productivity. While you won't be writing code daily, your technical depth must be sharp enough to spar with Staff and Principal engineers, guiding them through complex architectural trade-offs. Position & Strategic Challenges As the Head of Engineering, you will partner directly with the C-Level and Product Leadership to align our technical roadmap with our business goals. You will oversee multiple engineering verticals, mentoring Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, and evolving our organizational design to eliminate silos, increase deployment velocity, and maintain extreme reliability. What we are looking for: 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in senior leadership roles (managing managers, Directors, and Staff/Principal engineers) in high-growth or enterprise tech environments. Track record of scaling organizations: Proven experience scaling engineering teams (50+ engineers) while raising the bar for technical excellence and operational health. Architectural acumen: Deep understanding of modern software architecture paradigms, distributed data consistency, and data-intensive applications. You must be able to ask the right questions to ensure architectures can support Machine Learning/AI features at immense scale. Strategic trade-offs: Proven ability to navigate executive-level trade-offs (e.g., CapEx vs. OpEx, velocity vs. reliability, org structure optimization, build vs. buy). Culture & Talent: Demonstrated capability to attract top-tier talent, conduct complex structural changes, and foster an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture. Communication: Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills (mandatory) to operate seamlessly in a global tech context. You'll stand out if you: Have successfully led an engineering organization through a major technological paradigm shift, specific