Brazil, Belo Horizonte; Brazil, Campinas; Brazil, Rio de Janeiro; Brazil, Sao Paulo Hybrid Full-time

Nu is hiring a Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture
  • Set technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies
  • Drive pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies
  • Mentor engineers across teams, establishing and maintaining a high technical bar organization-wide
  • Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code. Able to pair and participate in code reviews to contribute to the growth of others in and around the team
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new experiences
  • Ensure comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and error handling across team services
  • Participate in on-call rotations for your team and respond to incidents as necessary
  • Work focused on backend applications, and be open to contribute to mobile and frontend development, according to business needs

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies
  • Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands (or even millions) of users
  • Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with ability to work across multiple languages
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations
  • Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD
  • Good communication skills to prevent risks and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Advanced English skills

Benefits

  • Chance of earning equity at Nubank
  • Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
  • Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
  • NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
  • Life Insurance
  • Medical Plan
  • Dental Plan
  • NuLanguage – Language Course Program
  • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
  • Extended Parental Leave
  • Daycare Allowance
  • Parental Consultancy
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Gym Partnerships
  • 30 days of paid vacation
  • Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Additional Information

  • Hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration.
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
Required Skills
Distributed Systems
About company
Nu

Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 131 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.

Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category Backend
Posted 13 days ago