Director of Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering division within a long-established partnership with a prominent U.S. investment manager.

• Take charge of daily operational and personnel leadership.

• Act as the senior engineering liaison for client stakeholders.

• Promote AI integration throughout the engineering team.

• Directly manage individual contributors and team leaders.

• Maintain hands-on involvement in delivery while the account leadership structure is being established.

• Foster trust through regular one-on-one meetings, open feedback, and development support.

• Address compensation, disengagement, underperformance, burnout, departures, and retention challenges.

• Manage client priorities and transform vague requests into actionable execution plans.

• Coordinate frontend, backend, DevOps, platform, and tooling workstreams.

• Define ownership, align dependencies, and bridge communication gaps.

• Collaborate with tech leads on architecture and decision-making trade-offs.

• Oversee hiring, onboarding, staffing, and resource allocation.

• Ensure engineers remain productive during client delays.

• Identify and resolve issues related to delivery, budget, and processes.

• Lead AI tooling, upskilling, and workflow design with measurable productivity and code review outcomes.

• Convert delivery metrics, technical decisions, and AI advancements into narratives that convey client value.

• Keep the CTO updated on actions taken and the rationale behind them.

• Occasionally travel for client visits and company retreats.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software development.

• At least 5 years of experience leading engineering teams, focusing on technical delivery leadership.

• Ideal candidates will have experience in an agency, consultancy, or client-embedded setting.

• Experience working with distributed teams is a plus.

• Outstanding communication and mediation skills across written, asynchronous, live, and cross-cultural contexts.

• Proactive approach to problem-solving concerning delivery, scope, budget, and process challenges.

• Proven hands-on expertise with AI as a working tool, including personally driving AI adoption with measurable results.

• Technical proficiency in modern architecture, SDLC, and common tech stacks such as React, Vue, Angular, Node.js, Python, Java, and C#.

• Experience in coordinating multiple teams or workstreams concurrently.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, especially in ambiguous or contentious situations.

• Background in staffing, onboarding, interviewing, and resource planning.

• Strong commercial awareness.

• Ability to think systematically.

• Experience with internal developer platforms, MCP-style tooling, or prototype-to-production workflows is an advantage.

• Must reside in Brazil; candidates from other countries will not be considered.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• 100% paid sick leave.

• Annual health checkup.

• Wellness subsidy.

• Education budget for learning and professional development.

• Flexible compensation for exceptional candidates.