AI Tech Lead

VAAS is a Brazilian risk-intelligence platform unifying compliance, fraud prevention, and credit decisioning.

Florianópolis, Brazil
About VAAS

VAAS Tecnologia Ltda operates a B2B risk-management platform for fintechs, banks, insurers, and other enterprises. Its platform combines data-source orchestration, configurable workflows, AI agents, collaborative decision tables, and continuous risk monitoring for KYC/KYB/KYE/KYS, compliance, fraud prevention, and credit operations.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will lead the Agents & AI-Native team while remaining hands-on in code. You will own the agent runtime, durable execution, model strategy, evaluations, security reviews, and operational reliability. You will establish engineering standards, coordinate delivery with other teams, and support hiring and development.

Requirements

  • Technical leadership of a team of 3 to 6 people and delivery of a production system
  • Production experience with LLM systems that execute actions through tool calling or agents
  • Experience designing and operating durable execution or workflow-oriented systems
  • Practical knowledge of tactical DDD and hexagonal architecture
  • Strong production backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js
  • Experience documenting technical trade-offs in ADRs
  • Rigorous use of coding agents and ability to teach the team
  • Clear engineering and business writing and technical English reading

Responsibilities

  • Lead and unblock the engineering team
  • Own the agent runtime, including execution, limits, cost control, and human intervention
  • Design durable agent execution with retries, idempotency, resumption, and versioning
  • Define model, provider, evaluation, and production-readiness strategies
  • Set code, testing, and review standards
  • Own operational and security reviews, including SLOs, incidents, prompt injection, tenant isolation, and personal data
  • Coordinate with engineering, product, and domain specialists
  • Participate in hiring and people development

Benefits

  • 30 days of paid leave after one year
  • Caju meal and transportation allowance for hybrid or onsite workers
  • Wellhub
  • Conexa telemedicine and Psicologia Viva
  • Two monthly nutritionist appointments
  • Two monthly psychologist appointments
  • Discounted general practitioner and specialist telemedicine appointments
  • Dasa exam discounts of more than 15%
  • Pague Menos pharmacy discounts of 20% to 30%
  • Free parking
  • Birthday-month day off

Hiring Process

Application → screening → HR cultural-fit conversation → technical interview with managers → final interview with directors → offer