Contractor Director Software Engineer

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are hiring a DIRECTOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER to our BASE Focus Area team in BRAZIL! 

At the BASE FA teams, we build the heart of the Wellhub business model. Our mission is to help Wellhub build a truly scalable platform to support dozens of millions of active users, clients, and partners worldwide with high availability while being flexible and extensible to incorporate new business models.

We have many important challenges such as building a system that gives us the flexibility to have different commercial conditions for different users in different contexts. Also, we are responsible for some critical and important flows within our business model, such as clients' and users' subscriptions as well as providing data to the ecosystem as the source of truth of these entities.

As a Director Software Engineer, you will oversee one or multiple engineering teams and their managers, responsible for delivering mission-critical services that power Wellhub'™s business. Your role will include driving technical and business strategy, optimizing engineering processes, and advancing the technical and leadership skills of your teams to create a culture of high performance and accountability.

YOUR IMPACT

• Oversee, mentor, and guide one or multiple engineering teams and their leads to deliver on large-scale projects with high complexity, ensuring alignment with company goals and strategic priorities;
• Partner with senior leadership to influence and drive engineering and product roadmaps, focusing on scalability, innovation, and business value. You'll have a direct impact on company-wide decisions;
• Foster engineering excellence by advancing best practices, improving development processes, and ensuring the technical vision remains relevant and actionable. You'™ll champion the use of cutting-edge technologies and techniques to maintain a competitive edge;
• Work closely with product, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure engineering outputs drive measurable business success, such as user growth, operational efficiency, and revenue generation;
• Cultivate a high-performing culture by mentoring engineering leaders and teams, ensuring continuous professional development and creating a clear path for career progression;
• Ensure critical systems and services operate at high availability and scalability while remaining adaptable to new business models and client needs;
• Work in a collaborative and agile environment that prioritizes people over process and is laser-focused on productivity;
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life balance.

WHO YOU ARE

• Experienced in managing managers (leads), as well as guiding multiple teams of software engineers across different locations, helping them align with business goals;
  
  
• Experienced in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications;
• Experienced in designing and developing complex modern web applications;
• Proficient in architecting large-scale, multi-tier applications, familiar with both monolithic and microservices architectures. You'™ve worked with cloud-based solutions like AWS/GCP and understand the intricacies of building and maintaining scalable systems;
• You excel in mentoring engineering leads and their teams, helping them grow their leadership and technical skills. You are proactive in driving technical growth, code quality, and operational excellence across multiple teams;
• You have excellent communication skills, able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and align cross-functional teams towards common objectives;
• Experienced in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis;
• Experienced in working with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB understanding common use cases and performance pitfalls;
• You have a deep understanding of systems and can actively troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and work with teams to quickly and efficiently resolve critical problems when needed. You balance strategic leadership with hands-on involvement in key technical challenges;
• You need to be able to articulate ideas clearly when speaking to groups in English.