Nubank

Staff Software Engineer - BI Intelligence

Nubank
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2 days ago
São Paulo, Brazil +2 moreStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve analytics platforms serving Nubankers and business units across the company.
  • Build AI-powered data experiences including natural-language interfaces, query generation, tool orchestration, grounding, and feedback mechanisms.
  • Develop trustworthy AI analytics foundations such as semantic context, governed metrics, data contracts, lineage, data quality, access control, and evaluation.
  • Design and operate reliable distributed systems with observability, service objectives, security, performance, and cost controls.
  • Drive technical direction, architecture decisions, and execution plans with engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Lead ambiguous initiatives, communicate technical trade-offs, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards through reviews, pairing, documentation, and operational practices.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Staff-level Software Engineer or equivalent technical leader delivering high-impact production systems.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and an SRE mindset, including reliable distributed systems, service objectives, and observability.
  • Experience with data platforms or analytics infrastructure such as Databricks, distributed query engines, metadata catalogs, semantic layers, or large-scale data systems.
  • Deep understanding of data semantics, metric definitions, data contracts, lineage, data quality, and access control.
  • Experience designing or integrating AI/LLM-powered products involving natural-language interfaces, RAG, tool use, query generation, grounding, or evaluation.
  • Ability to balance security, governance, reliability, latency, performance, and cost at scale.
  • Proven ability to lead ambiguous cross-functional initiatives and align teams and stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical decisions.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond the immediate team.
  • Preferred experience with conversational analytics, agentic workflows, AI-powered developer or data tools, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, AI-output monitoring, or financial services and other regulated environments.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in Brazil with an office requirement of 2–3 times per week.
  • Potential equity at Nubank, subject to applicable eligibility.
  • Food or meal card, public transportation commuting benefit, psychological, financial and legal assistance, life insurance, medical and dental plans.
  • Language courses, learning platform access, extended parental leave, daycare allowance, parental consultancy, work-from-home allowance, gym partnerships, and 30 days of paid vacation.
  • Relocation assistance package when applicable.

Tech Stack

Databricks

Categories

AI ApplicationsBackendData Engineering
Nubank

About Nubank

5,001-10,000 employees

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

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