Head of Software Engineering

🕒 July 24

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Neon

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

Neon is a Brazilian financial technology company that offers a comprehensive digital financial service through a mobile app. As an authorized payment institution by the Central Bank of Brazil, Neon provides customers with a digital account service, credit cards without annual fees, investment options like CDBs, personal loans, and various financial solutions for individuals and businesses, including MEI services. Their app facilitates easy financial management by integrating services such as virtual cards for secure online transactions, cashback on purchases, and the practical use of Pix for instant transfers. Although not a digital bank, Neon offers banking-like services powered by technology to promote financial innovation while ensuring high standards of security for its users.

📋 Description

• Develop and Lead People: Drive team growth through 1:1s, individual development plans (IDPs) and continuous feedback, ensuring a high-performance environment, autonomy and psychological safety. • Hands-on Technical Involvement & System Design: Actively participate in distributed architecture decisions, code quality and troubleshooting of complex incidents, also serving as technical support for the team. • Roadmap Execution & Delivery: Lead planning and alignment of deliveries in direct partnership with Product Managers and business stakeholders. • Governance & Resilience: Ensure engineering standards focused on high availability, ultra-low latency and security across the domains of different services. • Engineering Metrics Culture: Track and evolve team efficiency and maturity indicators using DORA metrics (Throughput, Lead Time, MTTR, Change Failure Rate). • Operational Health Management: Monitor and maintain system stability using availability metrics, SLAs, SLOs and observability practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Leadership Experience: Previous experience leading and developing software engineering teams in agile environments. • Strong Technical Background: Consistent hands-on experience in backend development (ecosystems such as .NET, Kotlin or Go, or equivalent high-performance languages). • Cloud & Infrastructure: Solid knowledge of AWS and cloud architecture concepts (managed services, messaging, microservices). • System Design & Scale: Expertise in distributed systems architecture, asynchronous processing, resilience and high availability. • Data-Driven Culture: Familiarity with product and engineering metrics and observability (Datadog, New Relic, etc.). • Hands-on Mindset: Willingness and ability to dive into technical details, ask hard questions about solution designs and help the team unblock bottlenecks.

🏖️ Benefits

• Truly remote work model, with team meetups every 3 months in São Paulo. Includes a credit to purchase a home office kit and partnerships for coworking access. • iFood Benefits Card — customize your package with meal and food vouchers and mobility benefits. • Gympass, with access to a network of gyms and online classes. • Parental support with childcare or nanny allowance and extended parental leave. • Medical and dental insurance. • Open English: discounted lesson packages exclusively for Neowners and their dependents. • Discounts on MBAs and specializations at USP ESALQ.