Own the structure and organization of the engineering team — how work is scoped, assigned, tracked, and delivered
Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical prioritization in partnership with product leadership
Establish and enforce engineering processes: code review standards, release practices, incident response, and documentation habits
Mentor and develop engineers at all levels through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, and deliberate growth planning
Identify gaps in team capability or process and drive concrete improvements
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for product, operations, and leadership stakeholders
Drive clarity on technical decisions — documenting tradeoffs, aligning the team, and ensuring follow-through
Drive AI adoption and usage across the team for efficiency and growth
Own architectural decisions for AWS infrastructure, including ECS, CloudFormation, Aurora RDS, EC2, Lambda, and networking
Review and approve significant technical work; set the standard for what good looks like
Lead evaluation and integration of third-party services including AI APIs (OpenAI) and platform services (RChilli, ATS integrations)
Contribute hands-on when needed — particularly in infrastructure, system design, and complex integration work — but this is not primarily a coding role
Identify and drive resolution of systemic performance, reliability, or scalability issues

Requirements

Demonstrated experience leading an engineering team — owning process, delivery, and people development
Track record of mentoring and growing engineers at different levels
Strong organizational instincts: you know how to bring structure to ambiguous situations without creating bureaucracy
Experience worked directly with product and business stakeholders to translate priorities into engineering plans
Excellent written and verbal communication in English; this is a remote, async-heavy environment and clarity of communication is essential
Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and accountability
8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2-3 years in a staff, principal, or technical lead capacity
Sufficient depth in PHP/Laravel and React to review work, guide decisions, and understand tradeoffs — hands-on production experience preferred
Experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs and third-party integrations
Working knowledge of SQL for query review, schema decisions, and performance analysis
Strong written communication skills in English; this is a remote, async-heavy environment
Real world usage of AI workflows in development, such as Cursor, Claude Code, Code Rabbit, etc.
Hands-on production experience with AWS ECS (container orchestration, task definitions, service configuration, capacity providers)
Strong working knowledge of AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure as code, including writing and maintaining stacks and change sets
Experience with Aurora RDS, including cluster configuration, parameter groups, read replicas, and performance tuning
Proficiency with EC2, including instance sizing, AMIs, launch templates, auto-scaling groups, and placement strategies
Solid understanding of AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways, load balancers (ALB/NLB), and Route 53
Experience with AWS Lambda for event-driven and scheduled workloads
Familiarity with IAM, roles, and least-privilege access patterns across AWS services
Experience integrating with OpenAI APIs (completions, embeddings, or assistants) in a production environment
Familiarity with resume parsing services such as RChilli or similar document processing APIs
General experience connecting and maintaining integrations with external SaaS APIs in a production platform
Experience in the HR tech, recruiting, or workforce management space is nice to have.
Familiarity with ATS systems, job board integrations (Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, etc.), or HRIS platforms is nice to have.
Experience with BI tooling such as Retool, Metabase, or similar is a plus.
QA experience or familiarity with QA processes, including test strategy, automated testing frameworks, and quality gates — experience managing or working alongside a QA function is a plus.

Benefits

Fully remote; you manage your own schedule and environment
Engineering culture that values code quality, pragmatism, and clear communication
You will interface directly with product and engineering leadership - this is a flat, fast-moving team
Async-first communication with English as the working language
PJ engagement structure; you are responsible for your own tax and compliance obligations in Brazil

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

PHPLaravelReactREST APIsSQLAWS ECSAWS CloudFormationAurora RDSAWS LambdaAI workflows

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringorganizational skillscommunicationautonomyaccountabilitytechnical prioritizationprocess improvementdocumentationteam alignment