Software Engineer Manager - Busca e Recomendação

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Engineer Manager - Busca e Recomendação based in Brazil. This is a leadership opportunity for an experienced engineering professional to guide two engineering teams focused on creating a best-in-class search and recommendation experience. You will work closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business priorities into high-quality, scalable technology solutions. The role combines people leadership, technical strategy, engineering excellence, and business impact. You will foster a high-performance environment centered on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will also help shape engineering strategy, monitor key performance metrics, and ensure teams deliver with both speed and quality. With a flexible, predominantly remote working model, the role offers autonomy while connecting you with a diverse and multidisciplinary technology organization.

Lead and develop two engineering teams, working closely with Product, Design, and Data disciplines to establish priorities, remove obstacles, and drive strong technical and business outcomes. Ensure engineering teams consistently deliver high-quality solutions with the appropriate balance of speed, reliability, scalability, and alignment with business objectives. Build and maintain a high-performance culture based on ownership, collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. Support the growth and development of team members through regular feedback, career conversations, performance management, and individualized development plans. Strengthen communication and alignment across different squads and stakeholders, ensuring priorities, dependencies, decisions, and expectations remain clear. Track and evolve engineering metrics related to quality, performance, productivity, and delivery effectiveness, using data to identify opportunities for improvement. Contribute to strategic decisions across the broader technology organization, connecting engineering initiatives with customer needs, business priorities, and measurable impact. Help guide technical direction and engineering practices for systems operating at significant scale, with a strong focus on availability, reliability, and sustainable architecture. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, combined with a solid background in software development. Proven experience managing people and leading software engineering teams, with the ability to develop talent and create a strong team culture. Experience working with distributed systems and high-scale, high-availability environments, with a strong understanding of reliability and scalability challenges. Knowledge of software architecture, engineering best practices, and technical decision-making, with the ability to engage effectively in technical discussions. Experience collaborating within multidisciplinary teams involving Product, Design, Data, and other business or technology stakeholders. Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders across different levels of an organization. Data-driven approach to decision-making, with the ability to connect engineering metrics and technical choices to customer outcomes and business impact. Strong ownership, strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities, and a continuous-improvement mindset. Experience with search, recommendation, or relevance systems, including ranking or search engines, is considered a plus. Familiarity with experimentation methodologies such as A/B testing and user-experience optimization is an advantage. Benefits: Competitive compensation aligned with the market. Health insurance and dental insurance. Private pension plan. Flexible benefits designed to adapt to individual needs. Meal and food allowance. Financial counseling and support. Employee advantages and discount club. Home office allowance. Mobility allowance. Childcare support. Life insurance. Extended leave policies. Programs supporting sports, quality of life, health, and wellbeing. Payroll-deducted loans with reduced interest rates. Flexible, predominantly remote working model with occasional in-person team gatherings when needed. Opportunity to lead engineering teams working on high-scale search and recommendation challenges with significant customer and business impact. Inclusive and collaborative environment focused on diversity, equity, innovation, and high performance.