Hybrid Tech Lead – Back Office Squad

at N5X

• Job title: Tech Lead – Back Office Squad
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Java
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sao Paulo, Brazil

About the role

• Tech Lead managing Back Office Squad for N5X, a platform for energy trading in Brazil. Oversee post-trade processes ensuring regulatory compliance and quality.

Responsibilities

• Technically lead the Back Office Squad, defining architecture, quality standards, and the evolution of post-trade capabilities, including booking, processing, reconciliation, and reporting
• Design and evolve systems responsible for processing trade events, ensuring consistency, idempotency, and traceability of transactions
• Develop and maintain operational and financial reconciliation solutions, ensuring data integrity between internal systems and external integrations
• Build and advance settlement capabilities (financial and/or physical), ensuring calculation accuracy, predictability, and adherence to defined operational flows
• Design and maintain data pipelines and integrations with regulatory systems, ETRMs, and other market participants, ensuring interoperability and consistency
• Ensure generation and delivery of regulatory and operational reports with high reliability, auditability, and compliance with legal requirements
• Provide operational support for post-trade processes, monitoring critical flows, identifying failures, and ensuring continuity of operations
• Define and implement engineering best practices, including data governance, versioning, observability, and management of technical debt
• Lead the technical growth of the team, promoting autonomy, knowledge sharing, and continuous development
• Run agile ceremonies and ensure delivery cadence, aligning technical and business priorities
• Monitor and improve engineering and operational metrics, including lead time, reconciliation time, data accuracy, and operational efficiency
• Report status, risks, and action plans to different levels of the organization, ensuring visibility and alignment
• Structure the team’s evolution, defining technical capacity needs and supporting hiring decisions
• Participate in the resolution of critical incidents, vendor management, and continuous improvement of operational processes.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis and Development (ADS), or related technology fields
• Solid experience in software development with Java, applied to building scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to develop and sustain mission-critical production solutions with a focus on performance, reliability, and continuous evolution
• Practical experience with cloud (AWS), including architecture design, automation, CI/CD, and observability with active monitoring
• Strong command of DevOps practices, including build and deploy pipelines, versioning, rollback, and production operations
• Experience with distributed systems architecture and service integration in complex environments
• Proven experience in technical leadership, driving architecture decisions, conducting code reviews, and evolving teams
• Experience coordinating complex technical initiatives involving multiple systems and stakeholders
• Ability to work with agile methodologies, ensuring delivery cadence and alignment across teams
• Experience defining and tracking engineering metrics, including performance, lead time, SLAs, and operational efficiency
• Ability to manage stakeholders and vendors, ensuring technical alignment, execution, and delivery quality
• Practical experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Fluency in Portuguese and English.

Benefits

• Bonus: Up to 2 monthly salaries per year
• Work model: Hybrid – 3 days in the office per week; participation in in-person team rituals (currently quarterly), in-person stakeholder meetings and events
• Meal allowance: R$ 43.68 per working day
• Food allowance: R$ 832.00 per month
• Transportation: Round-trip coverage for in-office days with no payroll deduction
• Health plan: SulAmérica with copay for the employee and dependents (children and spouse)
• Life insurance: MetLife
• Childcare allowance: Reimbursement of up to 40% of the normative salary for children up to 24 months and 35% for children between 24 and 71 months
• Financial assistance for employees with children with disabilities: Amount equivalent to 50% of the normative salary