9 days ago
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy and architecture for the AI Private Banker mobile experience.
- Lead the design, implementation, launch, and operation of a new conversational consumer product across iOS and Android.
- Partner with product and design to translate AI capabilities into simple, useful, and trustworthy mobile interactions.
- Define behavior for dynamic responses, latency, interruptions, errors, recovery, feedback, and customer control.
- Build reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and mobile foundations for AI experiences across Nubank.
- Own production quality across performance, accessibility, testing, instrumentation, observability, release readiness, and post-launch health.
- Align mobile, backend, platform, and AI/ML teams on complex initiatives from ambiguity through production.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise organizational standards for mobile architecture, product quality, and customer-centered engineering.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience as a founding or lead mobile engineer on a new consumer product or major zero-to-one launch, with ownership from early definition through production operation.
- Deep expertise building and operating production mobile applications on iOS or Android.
- Experience independently setting architecture and technical direction for a meaningful product area while balancing customer experience, speed, maintainability, performance, and reliability.
- Experience creating shared UI components, interaction patterns, design-system capabilities, or mobile foundations adopted by teams beyond the immediate product.
- Strong product judgment and experience partnering with designers to develop polished consumer experiences from ambiguous concepts.
- Experience building complex, stateful mobile flows with deliberate handling of performance, accessibility, testing, failure states, and recovery.
- Staff-level influence across engineering and cross-functional teams, including stakeholder alignment, mentoring senior engineers, and raising technical standards.
- Ability and willingness to remain hands-on while leading through technical judgment and influence.
- Preferred experience with conversational, assistant, generative AI, adaptive, real-time, or streaming product experiences.
- Preferred familiarity with model latency, uncertain outputs, and graceful failure states.
- Preferred experience launching consumer products across multiple markets, languages, or regulatory environments.
- Preferred experience in fintech or another domain where customer trust, privacy, and reliability are essential.
- Preferred experience working across mobile and API or backend boundaries.
Benefits
- Equity at Nu.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- Extended parental leave.
- 401(k), HSA, and FSA options.
- NuCare psychological, financial, and legal assistance program.
- NuLanguage language-learning program and Nucleo learning and development platform.
- Work-from-home allowance.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
- Hybrid work model with office attendance two to three times per week on designated collaboration days.
- Position based in Palo Alto, California.
Tech Stack
iOS
Categories
Mobile
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
