1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the multi-year technical vision for the Money Boxes backend platform.
- Architect high-throughput double-entry accounting, balance tracking, reconciliation, accrual, and yield-calculation engines.
- Design resilient deposit, withdrawal, auto-investment, settlement, and asset-routing infrastructure.
- Create multi-country and multi-currency abstractions for regulatory rules, local tax logic, and currency differences.
- Author technical RFCs and drive architectural consensus across Payments, Core Banking, Investments, and Security.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise standards for distributed systems design, resilience, fault tolerance, and domain-driven design.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a senior technical leader at Staff or Senior Staff level designing, operating, and scaling highly available, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on experience in fintech, banking, or investments, including transactional systems such as savings platforms, ledger engines, investment order management, custody, or core banking infrastructure.
- Exceptional knowledge of event-driven architectures, transactional consistency, distributed sagas, domain-driven design, and high-concurrency microservices.
- Experience building domain-agnostic, developer-friendly platforms and APIs with explicit contracts, service-level agreements, and strong observability.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-organizational technical alignment and communicate strategy to engineering leaders, Product Managers, and General Managers.
- Professional fluency in English is required; Portuguese or Spanish is a plus.
Benefits
- Equity opportunity at Nubank.
- NuCare psychological, financial, and legal assistance program.
- Life insurance and medical plan.
- NuLanguage language course program and Nucleo learning platform.
- Extended parental leave.
- Relocation assistance package, if applicable.
- Hybrid work model with two days per week in the office; roles are open in Brazil or key US hubs.
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About Nubank
Nubank is a digital banking platform for consumers and small businesses in Latin America, offering a no-fee credit card, accounts, payments, lending, and investments through Nu Asset Management. It monetizes via interchange, interest, and product fees within its app-based ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, it serves over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and is listed on the NYSE (ticker: NU).