2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+
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
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).