Life at Lisbon Tech Hub

In 2022, QuintoAndar proudly opened its first European tech hub in Lisbon, marking a significant milestone in our global expansion. aiming to tap into a new tech ecosystem, attract top talents, offer international opportunities for Brazilian employees, and enhance cultural diversity.

Our Lisbon tech hub is home to a team of over 30 experienced engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists. As we continue to grow in the coming years, we are excited to expand this talented team even further.

You'll collaborate closely with teams primarily based in Brazil, contributing to our innovative projects on a global scale. Join us at QuintoAndar Lisbon and help shape the future of real estate technology.

Location

At QuintoAndar, we embrace a remote-first philosophy, allowing you to work from anywhere in Portugal. However, for those who prefer in-person collaboration, we offer a vibrant office in Lisbon's historic center.

Language

This job description is written in English because for that position you will need it for communications with coworkers and suppliers who are from worldwide, for tools and internal materials as well. // A descrição desta vaga está escrita em Inglês porque para esta posição é necessário para a comunicação com colegas e fornecedores, que são de diferentes países, além do uso de ferramentas e materiais internos.

Stages of the Selection Process

Our selection process currently lasts an average of 40 days, from application to completion of the assessment. Going through:

• Application Screening + CV Screening
• Interview with Recruiter
• Tech Screening
• Technical Interview with Data Science Teams
• Offer

About the Area

Data Science and Machine Learning at QuintoAndar

Join our Data Science and Machine Learning team and become a key part of our product squads, delivering features that enrich our product and uphold the first-class experience we're known for. You'll collaborate with talented individuals from various disciplines: Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and more. 

Get ready for the job of a lifetime — expect challenging tasks, high standards, meaningful conversations, and outstanding productivity.

We tackle problems like intelligent search and recommendation systems, enhancing customer experiences with ML (such as automatic ticket routing and our GenAI-powered chatbot), pricing and liquidity models, credit, income, and collection models, and developing a platform that allows us to create and deploy these solutions.

Tech Lead Manager Responsibilities At QuintoAndar

As a Tech Lead Manager (TLM), you will balance hands-on technical work with managerial responsibilities, having the opportunity to make a significant impact through both technical excellence and strategic leadership. 

This role is designed for professionals who are passionate about deep technical challenges and team leadership, allowing you to grow by solving complex problems. You'll drive high-impact projects, mentor and guide team members, and play a crucial role in shaping the technical direction of our products.

On top of being a great engineer, we expect you to:

• Lead a small team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to build solutions based on AI/ML. 
• This position is focused on leading the team developing platform solution for all conversational chatbots at QuintoAndar.
• Be a technical reference to the team, including doing hands-on engineering work.
• Shaping the technical direction of our products, translating business requirements into solutions.
• Discuss business requirements with the Product Manager and other stakeholders.

• Solid understanding of the engineering challenges of deploying machine learning systems to production;
• Solid understanding of systems, software and data engineering best practices;
• Proficiency with cloud-based services;
• Proficiency in Python or another major programming language;
• Someone up-to-date with recent advances in Machine Learning Engineering, and willing to share his/her knowledge with the other members of the Data and AI Chapter;
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills;
• Have experience building backend systems, event driven architectures and rest/http applications
• Have experience building solutions with LLMs (RAG, fine-tuning);
• Have experience building AI agents and AI powered applications, familiarity with agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI);
• Experience leading teams and managing careers.

You'll stand out if you:

• General understanding of machine learning concepts: regression and classification, clustering, neural networks, feature selection, cross-validation, curse of dimensionality, bias-variance tradeoff, model explainability, etc.;
• Have experience working at fast-growing startups.
• Have track record implementing scalable and durable solutions
• Have solid experience with Deep Learning;

Important:

• Our selection process starts with registration! If you really want to be part of our team, take care of this step of the process. We analyze all candidates individually and give feedback even to those who do not follow the process;

• All communication is done by email, so stay tuned for our messages and release the domain @quintoandar.com.br so our emails don't end up in spam.

• Meal allowance: 7,63 EUR/day
• Health insurance (Multicare), w/ co-part (in Portugal)
• Work from-home allowance: 40,00 EUR/month
• Transportation: 40,00 EUR/month
• 25 vacation days per year
• Labor accident insurance
• Life insurance
• Child care allowance (children up to 5 years old): 100,00 EUR/month
• Maternity and paternity leave extended to 180 and 30 days, respectively
• 10 consecutive extra days of paid recess at the end of the year, not discounted on your vacation