Senior Software Engineer – Application Architect

Porto a Porto

Senior Software Engineer responsible for architecture and engineering of digital platforms at Porto Service. Leading teams towards efficient and innovative software solutions.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeBarueri • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLJavaKafka.NETPrometheusRabbitMQ

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Platform Architecture and Engineering: Define architectural standards and create optimized development paths, ensuring technical consistency, high-quality large-scale deliveries, and technical governance of complex distributed systems;
Drive Developer Experience (DevEx): Design structured solutions to standardize and accelerate the developer journey, improving operational efficiency and squad productivity;
Design High-Availability Systems: Model and implement robust architectures based on microservices, serverless, and event-driven solutions, using messaging and queueing tools (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or SQS);
Ensure Application Security (AppSec): Design and enforce in-depth security practices at application and infrastructure levels (authentication, authorization, encryption, and OWASP guidelines);
Bridge Business and Technology: Collaborate strategically with Enterprise Architecture to translate complex business requirements into viable, resilient, and scalable architectures, clearly weighing trade-offs;
Advance Cloud Modernization: Implement and maintain robust solutions in cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP and Azure), using infrastructure best practices and managed services (compute, storage, networking and serverless);
Orchestrate Automation and CI/CD: Design efficient continuous deployment pipelines, automating engineering processes to reduce time-to-market and safeguard system integrity;
Optimize Performance and Observability: Conduct deep performance and production bottleneck analyses, defining persistence strategies for relational and non-relational databases, and structuring observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog);
Foster an Engineering Culture: Promote adoption of modern development standards, actively mentoring other software engineers on coding best practices, security, and scalability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related fields;
Software Architecture Experience: Strong track record in designing and setting architectural directions for complex, long-lived digital platforms;
Greenfield Projects: Hands-on, proven experience building new platforms and digital ecosystems from scratch;
Solving Technical Complexity: Technical expertise in resolving complex engineering problems, specifically focused on high availability and scalability;
Ecosystems and Languages: Technical mastery in development and architecture using Java and/or .NET ecosystems;
Distributed Systems and Integrations: Solid experience with event-driven architecture, messaging/queueing tools (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) and designing robust APIs (RESTful, GraphQL);
Platform and Cloud Culture: Practical knowledge of cloud solutions (AWS, GCP or Azure) and automation/CI/CD pipelines;
Technical Interface: Experience translating complex architectural requirements and technical visions for different engineering teams and product leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Meal and Food Allowances;
Health Insurance;
Dental Plan;
Wellhub and TotalPass;
Bio Ritmo gym exclusive for employees: at the Headquarters complex;
Profit Sharing (PLR);
Equity Program: "Porto em Ação" — complementary to PLR through 2025;
Sand courts and multipurpose sports courts: at the Headquarters complex;
Transportation allowance;
Van transportation services: provided at Porto's main access stations (Luz, Barra Funda, Santa Cecília and Júlio Prestes);
Extended Parental Leave: up to 40 days for all family configurations;
Extended Maternity Leave: 6 months;
Medical clinic with specialties: at the Headquarters complex and Barra Funda;
Childcare or babysitter allowance;
Life Insurance;
Private Pension Plan - PortoPrev;
Discounts on Products and Services;
Tuition Assistance: reimbursement for undergraduate, postgraduate or MBA courses;
Monthly races: subsidy for the main road races in São Paulo;
Language course reimbursement (English or Spanish);
Porto Theater: exclusive sessions for employees;
Library;
Rest lounge: at the Headquarters complex;
Game room: at the Headquarters complex;
Massage and podiatry services: at the Headquarters complex;
Work location: On-site (we operate hybrid models, to be discussed during the recruitment process);

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform architecturesoftware engineeringhigh-availability systemsmicroservicesserverless architectureevent-driven solutionsapplication securitycloud modernizationCI/CDperformance optimization

Soft Skills

collaborationmentoringproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcommunication