24 days ago
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and evolve Insurance platform architecture to support scale, new products, and international expansion.
- Lead the adoption of AI-first and agentic engineering practices across the team’s development workflow.
- Align Product, Data, Security, Compliance, Insurance partners, and other stakeholders around technical trade-offs and outcomes.
- Ensure observability for AI systems and platform services through tracing, logging, and alerting.
- Mentor engineers on architecture, technical approaches, and AI-native engineering practices.
- Evaluate and integrate internal and external AI tools and agents into engineering workflows.
- Partner with central AI and platform teams and other business units to share tooling learnings.
- Promote safe adoption of AI-powered products among engineers and non-engineers.
- Embed responsible, auditable practices across platform and AI systems in accordance with regulations and internal risk standards.
Requirements
- Proven technical leadership as a senior or staff engineer delivering high-impact, large-scale production software systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving technical approaches and AI-native workflows.
- Strong systems or platform engineering experience, including architecture, CI/CD, test automation, and infrastructure evolution.
- Foundational knowledge of AI and LLM concepts and willingness to develop hands-on fluency with agentic tooling.
- Experience rolling out AI or agentic tooling with testing, CI/CD validation, and evaluation practices.
- Ability to design maintainable codebases and APIs connecting model inference or orchestration layers with user-facing surfaces.
- Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives across multiple business units and stakeholders.
- Strategic judgment connecting technical initiatives to operational efficiency, risk, customer acquisition, or engagement.
- Experience in fintech, insurance, payments, financial services, or another regulated or complex domain.
- Advanced English for daily collaboration in a global environment.
- Preferred experience implementing LLMs, generative AI, agentic patterns, or RAG in production products.
- Preferred understanding of prompt engineering, tool calling, context management, agent loops, and shared agent libraries or commands.
- Preferred experience with automated testing, CI/CD evaluation frameworks, insurance or embedded insurance products, and international expansion.
- Portuguese or Spanish language familiarity and experience in AI-first startups or big-tech AI/ML environments are optional advantages.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and company equity.
- Bi-annual trips to Brazil for coworker relationship building.
- Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous time off and company holidays.
- Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
- Extended maternity and paternity leave.
- NuLanguage language-learning program.
- NuCare mental health and wellness assistance program.
- Role based in São Paulo or Buenos Aires with a hybrid schedule requiring office attendance two to three times per week; benefits may vary by country.
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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