Engineering Specialist II
Itaú is a banking and financial services company serving individual, business, institutional, and public-sector customers.
About Itaú
Itaú operates as a full-service bank providing financial products and services to individuals, companies, institutional clients, and public-sector customers. Its offerings include current accounts, credit and loans, credit cards, investments, capitalization, insurance, consortia, foreign exchange, payment collection, debt renegotiation, and digital banking applications. The organization also provides specialized services through Itaú Empresas, Itaú BBA, Itaú Asset Management, and Itaú Securities Services.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will define technical strategy and architecture for high-scale distributed systems, lead design and implementation of Golang services, design Kafka event pipelines, set AWS standards, and evolve the internal engineering platform with Kubernetes, Crossplane and Argo. You will promote generative AI and coding agents, act as a reference across squads and mentor senior and staff engineers.
Requirements
- Solid Golang/Java/Kotlin experience
- Production Kafka experience
- Solid AWS experience
- Kubernetes, Crossplane and Argo CD/Workflows
- AI engineering: LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, coding agents
- System design for distributed systems
- Data structures, algorithms and architectural trade-offs
- CI/CD experience
- Technical leadership without direct people management
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- 10+ years of software development experience
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture of distributed systems
- Lead design and implementation of services in Golang
- Design and optimize data pipelines and event-driven integrations with Kafka
- Define AWS usage standards including cost, security and resilience
- Evolve the engineering platform with Kubernetes, Crossplane and Argo
- Promote generative AI and coding agents for productivity
- Conduct design reviews, RFCs and ADRs
- Mentor senior and staff engineers
- Collaborate with Product, SRE/Infra and Security
- Troubleshoot complex production performance and reliability issues
- Evolve CI/CD, observability, automated testing and application security
Benefits
- Transportation voucher
- Meal/food voucher
- Medical plan
- Dental plan
- Life insurance
- Profit sharing (PLR)
- Private pension
- Discounts on financial products
- Extended maternity and paternity leave
- Childcare/nanny assistance
- Education incentive
- Wellhub or TotalPass
- Access to Itaú leisure clubs