Nubank

Staff Software Engineer - Lending Foundations (Policy & Data Platform)

Nubank
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2 months ago
São Paulo, Brazil +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-horizon technical direction and architecture for Nu’s global Lending Platforms layer.
  • Build shared platform infrastructure that supports lending products across countries, products, and partners.
  • Design and own schema evolution, data contracts, events, state, model and policy pipelines, and downstream data consumption.
  • Make data quality, lineage, and observability first-class architectural concerns.
  • Drive alignment on complex architectural decisions across teams and stakeholders.
  • Mentor senior engineers toward Staff-level growth and establish a high technical bar.
  • Partner with engineering, product, data, business, and leadership stakeholders on global lending expansion.

Requirements

  • At least 6 months of experience in the Staff Engineer role or equivalent readiness for platform-scale challenges.
  • Experience reasoning about data at scale, including schema evolution, data contracts, model and policy pipelines, and observability.
  • Deep experience with Datomic, Kafka, Scala, and Clojure.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive alignment on difficult architectural decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers toward Staff-level roles.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership for platforms whose primary customers are engineering, data, and product teams.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring office attendance two to three times per week.
  • Potential to earn equity at Nubank.
  • Food or meal card benefit.
  • Public transportation commuting benefit.
  • NuCare psychological, financial, and legal assistance program.
  • Life insurance, medical plan, and dental plan.
  • NuLanguage language course program 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.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaClojureScala

Categories

Nubank

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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