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Responsibilities
- Work with large-scale distributed systems and understand their architecture and trade-offs.
- Set technical direction for multiple teams and align initiatives with business areas and architecture strategies.
- Drive pragmatic innovation and build resilient, secure, flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies.
- Mentor engineers across teams and raise the organization-wide technical bar.
- Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain high-quality code.
- Participate in pairing and code reviews.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build end-to-end experiences.
- Ensure comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across team services.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents.
- Focus primarily on backend applications while contributing to mobile and frontend development as needed.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies.
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale systems serving thousands or millions of users.
- Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages and ability to work across multiple languages.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations.
- Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior CI/CD experience.
- Strong communication skills for identifying risks and explaining trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advanced English skills.
Benefits
- Opportunity to earn equity at Nu.
- Extended maternity and paternity leave.
- Health and life insurance.
- Dental and vision insurance.
- NuCare mental health and wellness assistance program.
- Nucleo learning platform and NuLanguage language learning program.
- 30-day annual Holiday Bonus (Aguinaldo).
- 17 days of paid vacation with a 25% vacation bonus.
- Gym partnership and food card.
- Work-from-home allowance.
- Parental consultancy.
- Relocation assistance package, if applicable.
- Hybrid work model requiring office attendance at least 2–3 times per week in Mexico City, Mexico.
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About Nubank
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwzcXK2PUo