Gerente de Tecnologia II

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

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the technological vision and architecture of Astrea, establishing a concrete modernization plan for the stack and reducing technical debt, aligned with the product roadmap.

• Make strategic technical decisions regarding the product — architecture, technology choices, build vs. buy trade-offs — ensuring they support the evolution and growth of Astrea, including decisions on adopting AI and productivity tools that enhance the team's delivery capacity.

• Anticipate technological trends in the legaltech and B2B SaaS markets to ensure continuous innovation and technical competitiveness of the product.

• Define and monitor key KPIs and OKRs for the product technology area, reporting results to the CPO and providing data-driven insights for the decision-making process.

• Define, implement, and evolve software engineering processes, tools, and practices — CI/CD, quality, automated testing, code review, releases — ensuring high cadence and reliability in deliveries.

• Collaborate closely with the Director of Product and Technology in building and refining the Astrea product roadmap, ensuring technical feasibility, realistic estimates, and delivery speed.

• Ensure delivery teams operate with high productivity and quality, promoting modern engineering practices and intelligent adoption of AI to triple delivery capacity.

• Coordinate technical dependencies between product teams, ensuring alignment, integration, and absence of bottlenecks in the development flow.

• Proactively map and address accumulated technical debt, prioritizing initiatives with the greatest impact on performance, stability, and delivery speed.

• Ensure that Astrea maintains high performance, availability, and reliability in production, with a constant focus on the end-user experience.

• Define and monitor performance and availability SLAs for the product, establishing monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.

• Lead the solutions team, ensuring that customer technical issues are resolved quickly, with quality and generating learning for the product team.

• Oversee the performance team in identifying and proactively correcting bottlenecks, ensuring the product's scalability as the customer base grows.

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the technical leaders of the four teams for their areas' results.

• Build and maintain a high-performance engineering culture, characterized by autonomy, accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation.

• Attract, develop, and retain high-performance technical talent, ensuring the constant evolution of team members.

• Promote a data-driven culture and evidence-based decision-making within the product technology teams.

• Manage the product technology area's budget focusing on efficiency, prioritizing investments with the highest strategic return for the roadmap.

• Identify and implement process, tool, and automation improvements that enhance team productivity and efficiency.

• Negotiate tools, licenses, and technological services used in product development and operations.

• Evaluate and recommend the adoption of AI and automation tools in the development cycle, focusing on measurable productivity gains for the teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.

• At least 8 years of experience in technology, with a solid background in software development and system architecture.

• A minimum of 3 years in senior technical leadership roles (Tech Lead, Head of Engineering, Staff, Architect, Engineering Manager, or equivalent).

• Proven experience in B2B SaaS companies, with a successful track record in delivering digital products in high-growth environments — including contexts of technical debt, architecture modernization, or performance turnaround.

• Solid experience managing technology teams of 15+ people, including leading multiple squads and developing intermediate technical leadership (Tech Leads, Engineering Managers).

• Deep knowledge of scalable software architecture, modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, observability), and web application performance management.

• Ability to make strategic technical decisions based on data, clearly communicating them to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in highly complex technical environments, including systems with legacy code, multiple dependencies, or architecture in migration/modernization processes.

• Strong results orientation, ability to work under pressure, and skill in prioritizing in fast-paced and complex environments.

• Excellent collaboration skills with product, design, and business teams.

• Preferred qualifications include:

• Proficiency in React and Angular on the frontend, and Java and Kotlin on the backend.

• Experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform).

• Experience in the Lawtech market.

• Familiarity with incremental architecture migration strategies (strangler fig, monolith modularization, etc.).

• Experience with observability and APM tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana).

• Familiarity with the use of AI applied to the development cycle (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, automated code review tools, etc.).

🏝️ Benefits

• Meal/Food Allowance: R$ 1,300 monthly on a flexible card, with no payroll deductions.

• Home Office Assistance: R$ 135.00 monthly, with no payroll deductions.

• Health Plan: National coverage with Bradesco.

• Dental Plan: Provided by SulAmérica.

• Life Insurance.

• Extended parental leave: we are part of the Citizen Company Program and offer leave that supports different family formats — including adoption, same-sex couples, and single-parent families.

• Childcare Assistance: For children up to 5 years of age.

• Gympass/Wellhub: a wellness platform focusing on physical activities and overall health, providing access to thousands of gyms, studios, live classes, and wellness apps with just one monthly fee.

• Conexa Saúde: a digital health platform with various specialties, offering two free psychological consultations and two nutritional consultations per month for our team members.

• Guapeco: a pet health plan with simple enrollment, national coverage, and reimbursements of up to 100%.

• Language School Partnership: discounts for English and Spanish courses with OpenEnglish, Fluentia, and Instituto Cervantes, available in online and in-person formats.

• Profit Sharing (PLR): if the team meets the annual goal, everyone (really!) shares in the profits!

• Relax Week: We do not work on weekdays between Christmas and New Year’s to rest and enjoy the year-end as each person prefers.

• Workplace Assistance: in addition to lending a laptop, we provide R$ 2,400.00 to create a comfortable home workspace.

• Birthday Off: In your birthday month, you receive a full day off to relax and enjoy.

• Work at a Great Place to Work©: We are one of the best companies to work for in Latin America and Brazil.

• And much more! With a culture of feedback, development guilds, PDI during onboarding, Aurum Talks, regular meetings with all of Aurum, transparency in OKRs, celebratory actions, performance evaluations, and development programs among other processes that continuously help our team members grow.