Senior Software Engineer – Tech Lead, Personal Insurance

Porto a Porto

Technical Lead at Porto, spearheading engineering team in the insurance sector. Focused on transforming innovation processes in insurance interface with stakeholders.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeSão Paulo • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularDockerGraphQLJavaKafkaKubernetesOracleRabbitMQSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership, mentor and develop the engineering team, fostering autonomy and ownership among developers (focus on growing and scaling the team!).
Translate complex business needs into efficient, scalable, reusable and resilient API architectures.
Design cross-functional solutions, mapping flows, diagrams and data models across core systems and external partners.
Ensure technical excellence and quality through robust testing strategies (unit, integration and performance tests) to support high request volumes.
Promote an AI-assisted engineering culture, leading the adoption of tools such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q to accelerate development cycles and increase team efficiency.
Ensure high availability and security with a DevSecOps mindset, using observability tools (Dynatrace) and code-quality tools (SonarQube) to proactively mitigate risks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in IT or a related field.
Solid experience in large-scale projects, complex systems and software architecture design (with emphasis on performance and maintainability).
Proven experience in technical leadership and mentoring development teams.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders across the organization.
Familiarity and comfort navigating our technical ecosystem:
Core Tech: Java (Spring Boot, Spring Batch); experience with legacy systems/modernization (SOA/OSB) and Frontend (Angular) is desirable.
Databases: Oracle relational databases and data modeling.
Integration & DevOps: Microservices architecture (Docker, Kubernetes), RESTful APIs/GraphQL, messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and CI/CD pipelines.
Curiosity, openness to, or hands-on experience with AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, etc.).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Meal and Food Allowance;
Health Insurance;
Dental Plan;
Wellhub and TotalPass;
Bio Ritmo gym exclusive for employees: located at the Headquarters complex;
Profit-sharing (PLR);
Share Program: “Porto em Ação” – complementary to PLR until 2025;
Sand and multi-sport courts: located at the Headquarters complex;
Commuting allowance (transportation voucher);
Shuttle van services: available from main stations providing access to Porto (Luz, Barra Funda, Santa Cecília and Júlio Prestes);
Extended parental leave: up to 40 days for all family configurations;
Extended maternity leave of 6 months;
On-site medical clinic with specialists: at the Headquarters and Barra Funda locations;
Childcare or babysitting allowance;
Life insurance;
Private pension plan – PortoPrev;
Discounts on products and services;
Tuition assistance: reimbursement for undergraduate, postgraduate or MBA studies;
Monthly runs: subsidy for major road races in São Paulo;
Language reimbursement (English or Spanish);
Porto Theater: exclusive sessions for employees;
Library;
Rest room: at the Headquarters complex;
Game room: at the Headquarters complex;
Massage and podiatry services: at the Headquarters complex;

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Hard Skills & Tools

API ArchitectureSoftware Architecture DesignPerformance TestingData ModelingMicroservicesRESTful APIsGraphQLDockerKubernetesOracle Databases

Soft Skills

MentoringCommunicationStakeholder EngagementCuriosityOpenness

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in IT