Senior Backend Software Engineer – Tech Lead, Daily Banking Platform & Journeys

🕒 May 19

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Itaú Unibanco

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10,000+ employees

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Banking • Finance • Fintech

Itaú Unibanco is a leading financial institution in Brazil that provides a wide range of banking services including retail banking, investment banking, and asset management. Committed to innovation and technology, Itaú Unibanco serves over 55 million clients through its extensive network of branches and digital platforms. The bank also emphasizes diversity and inclusion in its workforce, fostering a culture that values different perspectives to drive transformation and enhance customer experience.

📋 Description

• Work directly on new products with high processing volumes, with a strong focus on performance, data consistency, resilience, and scalability. • Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams, covering the full lifecycle of solutions from discovery and technical design to delivery, support, and continuous evolution. • Serve as a technical reference for the team and partner areas, actively participating in all solution phases from discovery and design to development, delivery, and support. • Provide technical direction to the team, ensuring code and solution quality, security, maintainability, reusability, and sustainability. Also ensure scalability, performance, and resilience. • Partner with the Product Manager during inception, prioritization, planning, and delivery synchronization, contributing to alignment between strategy and execution. • Encourage team ownership, autonomy, and collaboration, promoting the use of AI to improve productivity and quality. • Monitor productivity and efficiency metrics, proactively driving their improvement, and analyze and share technical and operational risks. • Manage RUN activities, including environment monitoring, incidents, RPDs and changes, and lead continuous improvement cycles (PDCA) within the tech area and/or community. • Lead and guide strategic initiatives such as Direciona Tech and FinOps, providing extended technical leadership and influence. • Provide strong support to the team in organizing and prioritizing sprints and releases, aligning technically with peers and stakeholders, and contributing to the technical and behavioral development of team members.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in backend development with Kotlin and/or Java, or frontend (Angular and React) • Integration patterns (REST APIs and event-driven architectures) • System documentation and design • Experience with AWS • Monitoring and observability • Scalability, availability, and performance • Use of AI to enhance deliveries and products • Modern architectures and reference frameworks • Experience in cloud computing, 12-factor app principles, and SOLID • Messaging-based integration (Kafka / MSK) • SQL and NoSQL databases • DevOps and infrastructure as code (Terraform) • Knowledge of secure development practices and patterns • Preparation of technical documents, diagrams, and executive presentations • Experience with platform cost optimization (FinOps)

🏖️ Benefits

• Transportation allowance (Vale-Transporte) • Meal voucher (restaurants) / Food voucher (supermarkets) • Medical plan (Fundação Saúde Itaú or Central Nacional Unimed) • Dental plan (Odontoprev or Interodonto) • Life insurance • Profit-sharing (PLR) – Participation in profits and results (subject to bank performance) • Private pension plan (retirement savings) • Exclusive discounts on our financial products • Extended maternity and paternity leave • Childcare / babysitter allowance (for parents) • Tuition/study support • Wellhub or TotalPass • Access to Itaú leisure clubs (Guarapiranga, Itanhaém, and São Sebastião) • + Additional perks you can learn about during the process 😊