7 hours ago
USA (city not specified) +7 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, ambiguous, strategic initiatives from technical direction through production deployment.
- Identify high-value problems and deliver scalable solutions that influence business results and strategy.
- Shape mid- and long-term technical strategy with product and business leaders and create technical roadmaps.
- Make high-stakes architecture decisions and guide teams through technical trade-offs.
- Set design guidelines, quality standards, and reusable components adopted across teams.
- Mentor senior engineers, managers, and peers; participate in hiring and lead or sponsor guilds.
- Represent Nu in technical discussions with external partners, platforms, and vendors.
Requirements
- Extensive Staff-level or equivalent experience designing, building, and operating high-scale, mission-critical systems.
- Demonstrated success leading initiatives across organizational boundaries with limited formal authority.
- Evidence of shipping production software and validating architecture through hands-on coding.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous situations and experience building systems from scratch and evolving inherited systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical strategy to engineers, product partners, and senior leadership and build alignment.
- Pragmatic hands-on use of AI with attention to measuring its impact.
- Professional fluency in English.
- Preferred experience includes payments, card networks, fraud and risk, digital banking, consumer products at scale, regulated environments, LLMs, agent platforms or MCP, Portuguese or Spanish, and Clojure or functional programming.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring attendance in the office three days per week.
- Potential equity opportunity, depending on country.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement, health savings, and flexible spending benefits for eligible US employees.
- Parental leave, mental health and wellness assistance, learning and language programs, work-from-home allowance, and possible relocation assistance.
- Canadian benefits are provided through an employer of record.
- Brazil benefits include meal and transportation cards, insurance, medical and dental plans, parental support, daycare allowance, paid vacation, learning programs, gym partnerships, work-from-home allowance, and possible relocation assistance.
Tech Stack
Clojure
Categories
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).