With the aim of becoming a reference in technology and a global pool of talents, Neon, one of the main digital accounts in the country, announces the hiring of six new reference professionals in Silicon Valley, for the positions of engineers in the technology area. The new hires arrive at fintech with the mission to increasingly improve the experience of Neon’s growing customer base. The arrival of new hires further expands the presence of Neon’s technology professionals in Silicon Valley, in the United States.
Among the prominent positions, Yves Junqueira and Venkat Karun, are part of the Neon team as Distinguished Engineers. This is one of the highest levels of recognition for technical leadership in technology companies. At Neon, professionals will be responsible for supporting problem solving and product development using state-of-the-art technology and high-performance solutions.
In his professional career, Yves Junqueira was one of the founders and CEOs of YourBase, an American company that provides software test acceleration solutions. Junqueira also spent 10 years at Google as a systems engineer, accumulating extensive experience in distributed systems. Venkat Karun, on the other hand, has more than 19 years of experience in developing high-performance and quality software. He also worked at Google in Brazil and the United States, where he led the properties of products written in Java, such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Search, among other solutions.
André Madeira, CTO at Neon explains that the hiring of new Distinguished Engineers is part of fintech’s investment and strategy to become a reference in technology. “The arrival of Yves and Venkat strengthens our objective of positioning Neon as one of the main references in technology and innovation in the country, and reinforces our strategy of adopting and encouraging the national market to seek an increasingly modern technological maturity”.
To support the new Distinguished Engineers and make the customer experience even more personalized to their demand, Neon expanded the team by hiring four more professionals with experience in leading companies in Silicon Valley.
Herbert Duarte, formerly of Google, Facebook and Microsoft, will assume the position of Senior Staff Engineer, working in infrastructure, engineering productivity, optimization and machine learning. Emre Yamangil, Machine Learning and Optimization expert with Ph.D. in Operations Research from Rutgers University in the USA, he will assume the position of Staff Engineer, working on optimization and machine learning problems. Emre has a stint as a postdoctoral researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA, in addition to professional training at Google and Snap in California.
“The hiring of Herbert and Emre reinforces our commitment to bring in professionals with high knowledge and technical depth and extensive experience in leading technology companies in Silicon Valley.” emphasizes Wood. “Both Herbert and Emre will contribute to a strong culture to continue developing the high performance engineering that we have here at Neon” completes the CTO.
With a focus on making the Neon app even more accessible and adaptable to its audience, the Brazilian worker, fintech also announces the hiring of Nathan Ma, former product engineering manager at Snap, to assume the position of Head of Product Engineering focusing on Neon’s mobile application. Nathan will be responsible for leading the development of the company’s app in order to achieve maximum efficiency, usability, and accessibility for our audience. Also on the team is Michael Peterson, a former mobile software engineer at Snap, with extensive experience building efficient apps that have won hundreds of millions of users. The ex-Snap members join the team with the mission to maintain the performance and accessibility of the Neon app for all cell phone models available in our country today.
“With the growth of Neon in recent years, we have invested heavily in hiring professionals with different profiles and experiences to make areas such as mobile product engineering, large-scale data engineering, data science, distributed systems, etc. and machine learning in order to make the creation of products and solutions even more personalized for different customer profiles”, adds Madeira.
Build a global talent pool
The hiring of new professionals, residents of countries such as the United States and Portugal, are in line with the flexible hybrid work model represented by the “Neon em Todo Canto” project, implemented in January of this year, which allows fintech to follow a hybrid work model, with flexibility and autonomy for employees to work from any region of Brazil and abroad.
According to an internal climate survey, 95% of Neon’s employees approve of the flexible working hours model. 56% of employees live outside the city of São Paulo, a condition that contributes to the diversity of the team.
“Neon has been positioning itself for a new phase for the company, with the expansion of our global talent pool, we intend to soon open a space in the US so that our professionals have a place to meet in person, hold meetings and discuss innovations”, says Madeira.
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