Nubank

Lead Mobile Engineer

Nubank
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2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, launch, and operation of customer-facing mobile and full-stack crypto experiences.
  • Own end-to-end product flows across mobile interfaces, APIs, service integrations, data and state management, release readiness, and post-launch health.
  • Translate wallets, asset movement, and onchain transactions into clear customer experiences.
  • Make team-level architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs involving usability, security, performance, reliability, and delivery speed.
  • Build resilient transactional experiences with validation, error handling, recovery paths, testing, and observability.
  • Coordinate dependencies across backend, platform, security, compliance, product, and design teams.
  • Mentor engineers and improve team standards for mobile architecture, code quality, operational ownership, and customer-centered engineering.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building and operating production mobile applications, with the ability to work across APIs and backend services or equivalent full-stack depth with meaningful mobile delivery experience.
  • Experience independently leading a medium-term engineering initiative from technical design through production operation.
  • Strong foundations in client architecture, state management, API contracts, testing, performance, and reliability.
  • Product judgment and experience simplifying complex or high-stakes customer workflows.
  • Experience designing and operating transactional or security-sensitive product features.
  • Clear technical communication and effective collaboration with product, design, and engineering partners.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and improving team-level engineering practices.
  • Preferred experience includes crypto, wallet, digital-asset, onchain, fintech, payments, banking, regulated-product, or multi-market product development, along with depth in native or cross-platform mobile ecosystems.

Benefits

  • Equity opportunity at Nu.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Extended maternity and paternity leave.
  • Nucleo learning platform and NuLanguage language-learning program.
  • NuCare mental health and wellness assistance program.
  • 401(k), Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account plans.
  • Work-from-home allowance.
  • Relocation assistance package if applicable.
  • Hybrid work model requiring attendance in the office at least two days per week, typically two to three times weekly.
  • Palo Alto, United States location.

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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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