Director Software Engineer (Hands-On) | Clients
WellhubMaking every company a wellness company.
Skills
Remote details
To apply for this job you must be willing to work in the time zones between Lisbon and Brasilia.
This is a remote position based in Portugal or Brazil, meaning you can work from anywhere within these countries. Please note that this role is only open to candidates located in Portugal or Brazil.
Description
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are hiring a Director Software Engineer to join our CIA Focus Area in Portugal or Brazil!
At the CIA Focus Area team, we build the platform where all organizations can implement and manage their wellbeing strategy, helping to make every company a Wellness company, while generating a positive impact on their business. Our team is a multidisciplinary group composed of engineers, a Product Manager, and a Product Designer. Together, we’re responsible for delivering a robust and user-friendly platform tailored to the needs of our enterprise clients.
As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading and scaling the engineering structure behind our growth initiatives. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to define the strategic direction of our B2B experience, ensuring it aligns with business goals and user needs.
Beyond execution, you will play a key role in shaping our team’s structure, fostering a high-performing culture, and ensuring we have the right processes, talent, and technical vision in place to drive sustainable growth across Wellhub’s platform.
YOUR IMPACT
We are hiring a Director Software Engineer to join our CIA Focus Area in Portugal or Brazil!
At the CIA Focus Area team, we build the platform where all organizations can implement and manage their wellbeing strategy, helping to make every company a Wellness company, while generating a positive impact on their business. Our team is a multidisciplinary group composed of engineers, a Product Manager, and a Product Designer. Together, we’re responsible for delivering a robust and user-friendly platform tailored to the needs of our enterprise clients.
As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading and scaling the engineering structure behind our growth initiatives. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to define the strategic direction of our B2B experience, ensuring it aligns with business goals and user needs.
Beyond execution, you will play a key role in shaping our team’s structure, fostering a high-performing culture, and ensuring we have the right processes, talent, and technical vision in place to drive sustainable growth across Wellhub’s platform.
YOUR IMPACT
- Lead the design and development of some of the most critical and technically complex services in our ecosystem, focusing on long-term, scalable, and sustainable solutions.
- Define and evolve the technical vision for multiple teams, ensuring architectural consistency, system resilience, and alignment with product strategy.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders (Product, Design, Data, etc.) to prioritize and deliver initiatives that drive business growth and improve user experience.
- Mentor and empower engineering managers and tech leads, fostering a high-performing culture focused on continuous improvement and technical excellence.
- Oversee integration efforts with third-party APIs and tools, ensuring seamless and secure connectivity across systems.
- Guide modernization of legacy systems to enhance scalability, performance, and developer experience.
- Champion operational excellence through best practices in monitoring, incident management, and system reliability.
- Create and support a collaborative, agile environment where engineers are engaged, productive, and have clear paths for growth.
- Stay close to cutting-edge technologies and global-scale challenges, driving innovation across the engineering organization.
- 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 wellness.
Requirements
WHO YOU ARE
We recognize that individuals approach job applications differently. We strongly encourage all aspiring applicants to go for it, even if they don't match the job description 100%. We welcome your application and will be delighted to explore if you could be a great fit for our team. For this specific role, please note that architectural background, with a track record of designing and scaling complex, distributed systems and modern web applications are mandatory requirements.
- Proven experience managing and mentoring multiple high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced, product-focused environment.
- Strong architectural background, with a track record of designing and scaling complex, distributed systems and modern web applications.
- Deep experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and a solid understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Proficient in designing RESTful APIs and leading cross-functional collaboration between frontend and backend teams.
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and systems design.
- Experienced in relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB), with an understanding of scaling and performance best practices.
- Able to set a clear technical vision, communicate it effectively across teams, and ensure alignment with business strategy.
- Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Ruby, Go, C++); Golang experience is a plus.
- Strong communicator capable of influencing across functions and geographies, with fluency in English and experience leading globally distributed teams.
We recognize that individuals approach job applications differently. We strongly encourage all aspiring applicants to go for it, even if they don't match the job description 100%. We welcome your application and will be delighted to explore if you could be a great fit for our team. For this specific role, please note that architectural background, with a track record of designing and scaling complex, distributed systems and modern web applications are mandatory requirements.
Perks
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
We're a wellness company that is committed to the health and wellbeing of our employees. Our benefits include:
WELLHUB: We believe in our mission and encourage our employees and their families to take care of their wellbeing too. Access digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more. You will receive the Gold plan at no cost, and other premium plans will be significantly discounted.
FITNESS: Additional fitness subsidy to access onsite gyms and fitness studios.
FLEXIBLE WORK: At Wellhub, flexibility fosters a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment for everyone. As a Flexible First company, we offer two work model options: flexible hybrid and full remote, and make the office a place for collaboration, community, and team building. The model for this role can be discussed with your recruiter and hiring manager. We offer all employees a home office stipend and a monthly flexible work allowance to help cover the costs of working from home.
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We understand that together, Wellhubbers and their leaders can make the best decisions for their own individual scopes. This includes flexibility to adjust their working hours based on their personal schedule, time zone, and business needs.
PAID TIME OFF: We know how important it is to take time away from work to recharge. Employees receive a minimum of 25 days paid holiday per year with an additional day for each year of tenure (up to 5) in addition to annual holidays (including an extra holiday on your birthday!).
PARENTAL LEAVE: Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life and we want our employees to take the time to be present and enjoy their growing family. We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave.
CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development.
CULTURE: An exciting and supportive environment filled with passionate individuals from all over the world! You’ll partner with global colleagues and share in the success of a high-growth technology company disrupting the health and wellness space. Our value-based culture of trust, flexibility, and integrity makes this possible every day.
Diversity, Equity, and Belonging at Wellhub
We aim to create a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive space where everyone knows they belong.
Wellhub is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
We're a wellness company that is committed to the health and wellbeing of our employees. Our benefits include:
WELLHUB: We believe in our mission and encourage our employees and their families to take care of their wellbeing too. Access digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more. You will receive the Gold plan at no cost, and other premium plans will be significantly discounted.
FITNESS: Additional fitness subsidy to access onsite gyms and fitness studios.
FLEXIBLE WORK: At Wellhub, flexibility fosters a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment for everyone. As a Flexible First company, we offer two work model options: flexible hybrid and full remote, and make the office a place for collaboration, community, and team building. The model for this role can be discussed with your recruiter and hiring manager. We offer all employees a home office stipend and a monthly flexible work allowance to help cover the costs of working from home.
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We understand that together, Wellhubbers and their leaders can make the best decisions for their own individual scopes. This includes flexibility to adjust their working hours based on their personal schedule, time zone, and business needs.
PAID TIME OFF: We know how important it is to take time away from work to recharge. Employees receive a minimum of 25 days paid holiday per year with an additional day for each year of tenure (up to 5) in addition to annual holidays (including an extra holiday on your birthday!).
PARENTAL LEAVE: Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life and we want our employees to take the time to be present and enjoy their growing family. We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave.
CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development.
CULTURE: An exciting and supportive environment filled with passionate individuals from all over the world! You’ll partner with global colleagues and share in the success of a high-growth technology company disrupting the health and wellness space. Our value-based culture of trust, flexibility, and integrity makes this possible every day.
Diversity, Equity, and Belonging at Wellhub
We aim to create a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive space where everyone knows they belong.
Wellhub is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
