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

Itaú Unibanco

Tech Lead driving software engineering solutions for Itaú Unibanco's Daily Banking platform. Leading technical direction, collaborating in agile teams, and ensuring quality and performance.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeSão Paulo • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudJavaKafkaKotlinNoSQLReactSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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 😊

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Hard Skills & Tools

KotlinJavaAngularReactREST APIsevent-driven architecturesAWSSQLNoSQLTerraform

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationteam ownershipautonomycommunicationprioritizationsupportcontinuous improvementproblem-solvingmentorship