Lead Software Developer – Maestro: innovation at Brazil Labs

ADP is hiring a Lead Software Developer – Maestro: innovation at ADP Brazil Labs

About the Maestro Project: Maestro is one of ADP Brazil Labs' most ambitious innovation initiatives. It is designed to seamlessly integrate our ecosystem of AI Agents with ADP's design system and component libraries, delivering a truly unique and intelligent user experience. Maestro empowers associates and clients alike with intuitive, responsive, and adaptive interfaces that combine cutting-edge AI capabilities with a consistent, standards-based foundation. By harmonizing design, intelligence, and technology, Maestro sets the stage for the next generation of user experiences across ADP's global ecosystem.

Role Overview: As a hands-on back-end engineer on the Maestro project, you will design and implement the core services and architectural foundations that orchestrate AI systems, scalable APIs, and their integration with front-end applications. Your focus will be on building robust, secure, and efficient back-end architectures that not only scale for enterprise use but also support rapid prototyping and iteration in innovation initiatives. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of enterprise-scale system architecture and emerging AI-driven user experiences.

Your Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement scalable back-end services and APIs to power AI-driven and real[1]time user experiences.
• Build integration layers that connect front-end applications, AI agents, and third-party services securely and efficiently.
• Ensure system performance, security, and availability through thoughtful design, monitoring, and proactive optimization.
• Leverage modern cloud and serverless technologies to create resilient and cost-effective infrastructure.
• Apply enterprise architecture resources and patterns for validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with front-end engineers, AI specialists, and designers to ensure seamless end[1]to-end integration.
• Document architecture, application design decisions, and technical solutions to ensure knowledge sharing and maintainability.
• Participate in rapid prototyping, helping translate experimental concepts into production-ready services.

To Thrive in This Position, You'll Need:

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable web-based applications.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns and architectural principles for building distributed systems.
• Senior-level expertise in the JavaScript/Typescript/NodeJS ecosystem, with hands-on experience in other programming languages such as Python, Java, or Lua.
• Proficiency with popular database paradigms (relational, document-oriented, key-value), as well as messaging, queuing, and caching
• Experience with container-based deployments and managed/serverless cloud services (e.g., AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS, OpenSearch, EKS).
• Familiarity with modern reactive web frameworks (e.g., React/Next, Vue/Nuxt, Angular, Svelte) and real-time communication technologies (SSE, WebSockets).
• A passion for AI and related trends, with curiosity to explore how back-end systems can enable intelligent user experiences.
• Strong technical communication skills, with the ability to author design documentation and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
• Enthusiasm for prototyping, rapid iteration, and continuous learning in the evolving web ecosystem.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Shape the backbone of next-generation intelligent user experiences, working at the frontier of AI and cloud architecture.
• Contribute to a flagship innovation project that will impact ADP's global product ecosystem.
• Collaborate with talented engineers, designers, and AI specialists in a highly creative environment.
• Be part of an innovation culture that values exploration, growth, and delivering meaningful solutions.

Join us at ADP Brazil Labs, where your expertise in back-end engineering will power Maestro — a project that redefines how people experience work through design, intelligence, and innovation.

YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to net out the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

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• O modelo de trabalho adotado pela ADP é office based/presencial, com a possibilidade de trabalho em home-office por até duas vezes na semana.

• Considerando que as atividades desempenhadas pelos ocupantes deste cargo envolvem acesso a informações altamente confidenciais e sensíveis de clientes da ADP e de seus respectivos empregados, a ADP reserva-se o direito de conduzir checagem de histórico, de tempos em tempos, conforme autoriza o Incidente de Recurso de Revista Repetitivo nº 01 do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho, mediante consentimento do candidato/trabalhador.

A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP's operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.

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