Engineering Director (100% remote-friendly within Brazil)

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Director of Engineering to lead our technical teams, drive innovation, and play a key role in our product evolution. This is a remote-friendly role within Brazil, where you’ll foster collaboration between global teams, steer product development, and manage a talented engineering team. Through your leadership, technical background and expertise, you will lead Feegow into a new phase of our journey within Docplanner Group. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Deep-dive into and challenge technical solutions to balance product, business, and engineering objectives for both short-term and long-term goals, ensuring component quality and reliability.
• Contribute to our global technical strategy, define architecture and standards, direct the technological path for your area, and ensure timely delivery.
• Lead a team of Engineers of varying seniority levels, fostering their growth and scaling the team effectively.
• Create and nurture a culture of collaboration, performance, and accountability across all teams.
• Clearly document and communicate technical opportunities, constraints, recommendations, and action items in a way that is understandable to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborate with both technical and non-technical members of the organization to help define ongoing and future business and system requirements and prioritize technology-related initiatives.
• Articulate and communicate technical challenges to senior stakeholders and contribute to the roadmap for both your teams and the entire engineering department.
• Be a trusted advisor to the local and global executive teams and drive strategic decision-making processes.

• Tech Team Leadership: 7+ years of successful tech team leadership, confident managing large teams (20+), with a proven track record in growing and mentoring engineers. An inspiring and engaging people leader with high emotional intelligence (EQ), able to navigate opinions, set a vision, and bring people along.
• Software Development Background: Hands-on experience in software development, with the ability to offer guidance and insights.
• Mindset: Hands-on, detail-oriented, pragmatic, and collaborative attitude & comfortable with change, uncertainty, and high-velocity environments.
• Business perspective: Customer-centric focus, aligning the organization to maximize customer outcomes. Intellectual and strategic horsepower with exceptional clarity of thought and a relentless focus on execution and delivery.
• Advanced English Skills: Comfortable communicating in written and verbal English across global teams.

Nice to Have:

• Tech Accountability Experience: Familiarity with accountability-driven environments and a proven track record of instilling such a culture.
• Product Lifecycle Knowledge
• Growth Mindset: A willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment

• Benefits:

• 100% remote-friendly within Brazil
• Working hours are from Monday to Friday;
• We have compensatory time off (Banco de Horas);
• Food/Market Voucher;
• Medical, Dental, and Group Life Insurance;
• Pet Plan;
• iFeel app, for emotional comfort;
• Gympass for you and up to 3 people! 
• Creditas: Payroll loan services, eligible after 6 months of employment;
• Stock Options - eligible after 6 months of employment (5 years grace period) - 
• Birthday Day Off;
• Daycare Assistance;
• Partnership Club, with discounts ranging from teaching institutions, such as colleges and language learning services;
• Referral Program offers up to R$600 per person who stays with us for more than 6 months;
• Leave of Absence/Time-off: in the event of the passing of loved ones, we offer 10 days off; if your pet passes away, we offer 2 days. Got married? 7 days of rest! Did the baby arrive? We offer 30 days for Dads and 6 months for Moms;

• Important: Docplanner is an international English-first company. Therefore, please be sure to send your CV in English

We promote and embrace equal opportunities in our hiring process, and also every day at work. When you apply for our roles you receive equal treatment regardless of age, disabilities, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other dimension of human difference.  If you require additional support in your recruitment process, we kindly encourage you to let us know. Behind those words you’re reading, there’s a person (hi!) who already helped a candidate by adapting the interviews, and now we’re lucky to have this person with us. So, even if you’ve never asked for it before, may this serve as a sign that, now, you can do so. We can only truly be equal if we adapt to each other.

“We believe all humans, in all their beautiful diversity, should have equal rights, dignity and respect. Period.” Mariusz Gralewski,  CEO