3 hours ago
São Paulo, Brazil +5 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the target architecture and technical strategy for the global Deposits platform.
- Guide platform evolution and legacy-system migrations while balancing safety, business priorities, regulatory requirements, and delivery sustainability.
- Set technical standards for distributed transaction processing, accounting integrity, yield and tax calculations, reliability, observability, and operational recovery.
- Lead high-impact technical decisions across services and markets and communicate trade-offs clearly.
- Represent Deposits in cross-team alignment with Product, platform owners, and senior stakeholders.
- Create RFCs, design documents, migration plans, decision records, and executable milestones.
- Multiply team effectiveness through mentoring, architecture reviews, code reviews, and reusable engineering standards.
- Remain hands-on and lead by example on critical or complex platform components.
Requirements
- Staff-level experience leading architecture and technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience with asynchronous workflows, eventual consistency, concurrency, high-throughput processing, performance, and failure recovery.
- Ability to evolve complex systems incrementally and safely while designing for the long term.
- Strong judgment in high-impact technical decisions and ability to communicate options, criteria, and trade-offs.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning teams with differing priorities or constraints.
- Experience mentoring engineers, raising technical standards, and enabling independent execution.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, complex domain rules, and differing regulatory or product requirements across markets.
- Strong English communication skills for a global, cross-functional environment.
- Ability to learn complex domains and reason about business-critical systems.
- Experience in financial services, banking, payments, or accounting platforms is preferred but not required.
- Experience with Clojure, Datomic, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, or comparable technologies is preferred.
- Experience designing platforms for multiple countries, products, and regulatory environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring office attendance at least twice per week, with the role based in Brazil, the United States, or Canada.
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank.
- Food or meal card, public transportation commuting benefit, life insurance, medical plan, and dental plan.
- NuCare psychological, financial, and legal assistance program.
- NuLanguage language courses and Nucleo learning platform.
- Extended parental leave, daycare allowance, and parental consultancy.
- Work-from-home allowance and gym partnerships.
- 30 days of paid vacation.
- Relocation assistance package if applicable.
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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).