13 days ago
Responsibilities
- Understand blockchain protocols and translate their capabilities into customer-facing product decisions.
- Build and evolve product-facing capabilities for onchain data, transaction execution, signing and custody integrations, asset movement, and smart-contract interactions.
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to shape crypto experiences and evaluate technical, customer, and business tradeoffs.
- Integrate with custody, key-management, and security systems owned by the core crypto team.
- Design APIs and abstractions that enable rapid crypto feature development without weakening controls.
- Establish standards for reliability, observability, data integrity, and production readiness.
- Lead critical design reviews, major-incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the team’s technical and product judgment.
Requirements
- Staff-level track record building customer-facing products or platforms with meaningful technical depth.
- Deep experience with distributed systems at scale, including transaction processing, eventual consistency, failure handling, high availability, and production operations.
- Ability to translate technical protocol or infrastructure knowledge into product decisions and customer-facing features.
- Production ownership of regulated or high-stakes financial movement, blockchain integrations, or adjacent money-moving infrastructure.
- Experience designing security-sensitive systems using threat modeling, explicit trust boundaries, defensive architecture, and rigorous review processes.
- Experience partnering with product and business stakeholders as a peer to shape what gets built.
- Experience leading complex production incidents and improving systems and operating practices afterward.
- Strong influence, communication, and mentorship skills, including aligning teams without reporting authority.
- Experience integrating with multiple blockchain networks or protocol families is preferred.
- Experience shaping crypto or digital-asset product or business strategy is preferred.
- Familiarity with HSMs, secure enclaves, or hardware-backed key-management systems is preferred.
- Experience in regulated fintech, banking, payments, or institutional digital-asset infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience reviewing smart-contract security or integrating with DeFi protocols in production is preferred.
Benefits
- Role is based in Palo Alto, United States.
- The recruitment process may use AI-enabled tools for interview transcription and analysis, with final decisions made by human reviewers.
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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