Technology Manager II

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

📋 Description

• Define and enhance Astrea’s technology vision and architecture by creating a solid plan to modernize the stack and minimize technical debt in alignment with the product roadmap.

• Make strategic technical choices for the product — including architecture, technology selections, and build vs. buy evaluations — to support Astrea’s growth and evolution, particularly regarding AI integration and productivity tools that enhance the team’s delivery capacity.

• Stay ahead of technology trends in the legaltech and B2B SaaS sectors to guarantee ongoing innovation and maintain the product’s competitive edge.

• Establish and track key technology KPIs and OKRs for the product area, sharing outcomes with the CPO and providing data-driven insights to inform decision-making.

• Define, implement, and enhance software engineering processes, tools, and practices — including CI/CD, quality assurance, automated testing, code reviews, and releases — to ensure a high frequency and reliability of deliveries.

• Work closely with the Director of Product and Technology to build and refine the Astrea product roadmap, ensuring technical feasibility, realistic time estimates, and delivery speed.

• Guarantee that delivery teams operate at high productivity and quality levels, promoting modern engineering practices and intelligent AI adoption to significantly increase delivery capacity.

• Coordinate technical dependencies across product teams to ensure alignment, integration, and the absence of bottlenecks in the development process.

• Identify and proactively tackle accumulated technical debt, prioritizing initiatives that will have the most significant impact on performance, stability, and delivery speed.

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

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

• Lead the solutions team to ensure that customer technical issues are resolved swiftly and effectively, with lessons learned communicated back to the product team.

• Oversee the performance team to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks, ensuring that the product scales effectively as the customer base expands.

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the technical leadership across the four teams for their area results.

• Foster a high-performance engineering culture based on autonomy, ownership, continuous improvement, and innovation.

• Attract, develop, and retain top technical talent, ensuring continuous growth for team members.

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

• Manage the product technology budget with a focus on efficiency, prioritizing investments that yield the highest strategic returns for the roadmap.

• Identify and implement improvements in processes, tools, and automation that enhance team productivity and effectiveness.

• Negotiate tools, licenses, and technology services utilized in product development and operation.

• Assess and recommend the adoption of AI and automation tools in the development cycle, emphasizing measurable productivity enhancements for the teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in technology, with a solid foundation in software development and systems architecture.

• At least 3 years of experience in senior technical leadership positions (Tech Lead, Head of Engineering, Staff Engineer, Architect, Engineering Manager, or equivalent).

• Demonstrated experience in B2B SaaS companies, with a history of delivering digital products in high-growth environments — including contexts involving technical debt, architecture modernization, or performance improvements.

• Significant experience managing technology teams of 15+ members, including leading multiple squads and developing mid-level technical leaders (Tech Leads, Engineering Managers).

• In-depth 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 and effectively communicate them to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in environments with high technical complexity, including systems with legacy code, multiple dependencies, or architectures undergoing migration/modernization.

• Strong results orientation, capability to work under pressure, and skill in prioritizing tasks in fast-paced, complex settings.

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

• Nice-to-have:

• Proficiency in React and Angular for frontend development, as well as Java and Kotlin for backend development.

• Experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform).

• Familiarity with the lawtech/legaltech market.

• Experience with incremental migration strategies (such as strangler fig and monolith modularization).

• Knowledge of observability and APM tools (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana).

• Experience utilizing AI in the development cycle (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, automated code review tools).

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Home Office Allowance: R$ 135.00 monthly, with no payroll deduction.

• Health Plan: Bradesco (national coverage).

• Dental Plan: SulAmérica.

• Life Insurance.

• Extended parental leave: we participate in the Empresa Cidadã program and offer leaves that support various family structures — including adoption, same-sex couples, and single-parent families.

• Childcare Assistance: for children up to 5 years old.

• Gympass/Wellhub: a wellbeing platform focused on physical activity and holistic health, providing access to thousands of gyms, studios, live classes, and wellness apps for a single monthly fee.

• Conexa Saúde: a digital health platform offering multiple specialties, where employees can access 2 free psychological consultations and 2 free nutritional consultations each month.

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

• Partnership with language schools: discounts for English and Spanish through OpenEnglish, Fluentia, and Instituto Cervantes, available both online and in-person.

• Profit Sharing (PLR): if the team meets the annual target, all members receive profit sharing.

• Relax Week: we do not work on business days between Christmas and New Year, allowing everyone to rest and enjoy the holiday season as they wish.

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

• Birthday Day Off: enjoy a full day off during your birthday month to relax and celebrate.

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

• And more! We foster a culture of feedback, development guilds, individual development plans during onboarding, Aurum Talks, frequent all-company meetings, transparency in OKRs, celebratory events, performance reviews, development programs, and other initiatives that continuously support our people's growth.