Nubank

Lead Software Engineer (Crypto, SV) - US - IC6 - 2026

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3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Integrate blockchain protocols and core crypto systems to source portfolio, transaction, market, and on-chain data.
  • Design and operate data pipelines that transform crypto and customer data into structured context for AI-driven experiences.
  • Define data contracts, tool interfaces, APIs, and context schemas with AI platform and ML engineering teams.
  • Model customer profiles, risk appetite, portfolio composition, crypto literacy, and behavior for personalized insights.
  • Ensure data freshness, consistency, correctness, and reliability in customer-facing conversational surfaces.
  • Build safeguards against stale, untrusted, misleading, or hallucinated financial information.
  • Collaborate with product, compliance, crypto engineering, and AI platform teams to ship personalized crypto features responsibly.

Requirements

  • Experience building data pipelines and integration layers connecting backend or product data to AI-driven systems, including context engineering and tool or function calling.
  • Strong understanding of blockchain concepts and crypto products, including wallets, portfolios, transactions, on-chain data, and protocol integrations.
  • Experience using customer data and behavior for personalization, segmentation, risk profiling, or usage-pattern analysis.
  • Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and experience operating data pipelines and services at scale with attention to throughput, consistency, failure handling, freshness, and reliability.
  • Ability to translate platform integration needs into clear data contracts and APIs across teams.
  • Awareness of financial-data risks in LLM-driven surfaces, including data integrity, injection risks, and guardrails.
  • Experience with Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana is preferred.
  • Experience with RAG systems, agent tooling, fintech, payments, financial services, personalization, recommendation systems, vector databases, embeddings, context retrieval, conversational AI, or LLM platform teams is preferred.

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BackendData Engineering
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About Nubank

10,000+ employees

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).

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