Nubank

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Nubank
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3 days ago
Bogotá, ColombiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build forecasting models and models that assess and guide marketing investments.
  • Frame ambiguous business and stakeholder needs as well-defined machine learning problems.
  • Design, build, validate, tune, deploy, and maintain production machine learning models.
  • Engineer and maintain features and datasets for training and inference.
  • Deploy models in batch and real-time scenarios and monitor operational and business metrics.
  • Lead modeling projects end-to-end from problem framing and stakeholder alignment through delivery, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Contribute to Nu Colombia’s strategy and performance by translating business needs into modeling strategies aligned with Nubank’s architecture and long-term goals.

Requirements

  • Strong foundation in statistics, machine learning theory, and modeling techniques including regression, tree-based models, and deep learning.
  • Programming experience in Python and familiarity with scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or XGBoost.
  • Experience training, validating, and tuning models, with understanding of overfitting, the bias-variance tradeoff, and evaluation metrics.
  • Understanding of the machine learning lifecycle from training and evaluation through deployment and monitoring.
  • Ability to write efficient SQL queries and work with analytical data environments.
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.
  • Passion for building high-quality, production-grade models.
  • Preferred experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; distributed systems and asynchronous architectures; feature stores, MLOps tooling, and experiment tracking such as MLflow, Feast, or Airflow; data architecture patterns; and visualization tools such as Looker, Power BI, or Tableau.
  • Preferred knowledge of software engineering best practices including testing, clean code, and documentation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to earn equity at Nu.
  • Extended maternity and paternity leave, health and life insurance, and mental health and wellness assistance through NuCare.
  • Access to Nucleo learning courses and NuLanguage language learning.
  • 15 workdays of vacation, gym partnership, work-from-home allowance, parental consultancy, and relocation assistance if applicable.
  • Hybrid work model requiring office attendance at least two times per week, with the role located in Bogotá, Colombia.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMLflowPythonPyTorchscikit-learnSQLTensorFlowXGBoost

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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