Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join QuintoAndar's Lisbon tech hub as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the future of real estate technology. You will work on AI/ML projects, collaborating with a global team primarily based in Brazil. This role involves the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and monitoring. QuintoAndar embraces a remote-first philosophy, allowing you to work from anywhere in Portugal, with a vibrant office in Lisbon available. The company offers a competitive compensation package and various benefits. The selection process takes approximately 40 days.

Requirements

• Fluency in at least one programming language, and databases (experience w/ Elasticsearch is a big plus!)
• Proven track record of delivering solutions to complex problems, with experience designing, building, and maintaining large, scalable systems/apps
• Deep understanding of best practices for software maintainability and team productivity
• Experience using RESTful APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and test automation
• Excellent operational and troubleshooting skills
• 5+ years experience in software development
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver real impact through high-quality data-driven and structured software
• Professional fluency in English (Portuguese is a plus)

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve scalable, high-maintainable services (mostly Java/Kotlin), web applications (React), and mobile apps (Flutter)
• Own the entire lifecycle of your code, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues
• Enhance the development experience by improving dev tools, test coverage, and code structure
• Contribute to the broader product team by conducting code reviews, RFC reviews, and sharing knowledge and best practices in product development
• Lead complex projects, involving multiple teams
• Mentor less experienced software developers
• Participate in the hiring process: interviewing, evaluating candidates, and raising the bar
• Engage in critical analysis of company-wide development tools and processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices to enhance software maintainability and team productivity

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience working with search, and recommendation applications
• Have experience with Elastisearch, vector search, LLM-agents applications, and personalized recommendations
• Fluent in one of our main stacks: Java, Kotlin
• Have experience with AWS cloud services
• Understand containers, and container orchestration (eg. Kubernetes)
• Have experience maintaining high-availability services/apps
• Led projects that involved the collaboration of different teams
• Have experience mentoring less experienced engineers, and interviewing software engineering candidates

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including salary + performance annual bonus + stock options
• Meal allowance
• Health insurance
• Work from-home allowance
• Transportation
• 25 vacation days per year + a week off between end of year Holidays
• Labor accident insurance
• Life insurance
• Child care allowance (children up to 5 years old)
• Maternity and paternity leave extended to 180 and 30 days, respectively