Director of Software Engineering

🕒 April 23

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Neon

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

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

• Define and evolve the technical vision and engineering strategy across multiple domains, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. • Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance. • Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of complex products by managing technical roadmaps and execution risks. • Promote operational excellence through robust SRE practices, observability, and automation across the software lifecycle. • Act as a strategic partner to Product, Data, Risk, and Compliance teams to enable financial innovation in a regulated environment. • Manage the department budget, headcount planning, and strategies for attracting and retaining top technical talent. • Influence the architecture of large-scale distributed systems, ensuring resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience leading engineering organizations in hyper-growth (scale-up) environments or large financial institutions. • Proven track record managing managers and developing technical leadership across multiple teams. • Deep technical knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP). • Experience building critical financial systems, handling high concurrency, data consistency, and compliance requirements. • Hands-on, builder mentality who prefers creating solutions over managing established processes, with practical experience solving complex scaling problems. • Belief in a culture of autonomy with accountability and ability to navigate ambiguous scenarios with clarity and pragmatism. • Excellent communication skills to translate technical challenges into business opportunities for senior stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

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