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About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our platform team as a technical anchor, ensuring our systems remain scalable and flexible as we maintain sustainable growth and innovation. You will play a vital role in evolving the architecture of one of our most complex and strategic products, operating within a high-impact triad alongside Product and Management, focusing on long-term technical strategy and system health. As a hands-on technical leader, you will challenge the status quo, propose innovation and solve deep architectural problems, mentor and become a technical reference for our engineering team.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for the global architecture of the core credit card platform, ensuring exponential scalability and continuous evolution capability.
Lead the strategic partnership with Product and Business leadership to shape the medium and long-term technical roadmap and define strategic OKRs and global impact KPIs.
Act as a technical and cultural reference, defining the highest standards of engineering excellence, mentoring other Architects and Principal/Staff Engineers, and fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.
Lead and resolve the most ambitious and high-risk technical challenges, intervening in critical performance or resilience bottlenecks and driving technical execution for solutions with multi-system and multi-country impact.
Design and oversee the execution of complex system transformations, ensuring regulatory compliance in multiple jurisdictions and fiscal regimes, proactively mitigating risks.
Communicate and defend the technical strategy eloquently and convincingly to the executive board and non-technical audiences, translating architecture decisions into business value and competitive advantage.

Requirements

Principal/Staff Engineer level experience or equivalent with an extensive and demonstrable history in architecting and scaling mission-critical, high-volume, and low-latency systems in global fintech or e-commerce environments.
Expert proficiency in multiple programming paradigms, with significant hands-on experience in functional programming and reactive/event-based architectures.
Proven ability to establish and lead the long-term technical strategy for entire platform ecosystems, influencing the direction of multiple engineering groups.
Deep and successful experience in navigating and defining the architecture in highly regulated financial environments and designing systems to meet data residency requirements and complex cross-border transactions.
History of successfully leading and completing large-scale platform transformations, managing risks and operational impact.
In-depth knowledge of credit card/payment systems design is a significant differential.

Skills

Functional programming (e.g., Clojure, Scala, Haskell)
Reactive/event-based architectures
Clojure or similar functional languages
AI to optimize engineering workflows
Credit card processing or financial ledgers

Location

Brazil (São Paulo, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, or Belo Horizonte)
United States (Palo Alto or Miami)
Canada (Toronto)

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff Engineer

Salary/Compensations

Toronto base salary range (CAD): $192.000 - $288.000
Palo Alto base salary range (USD): $230.400 - $288.000

Benefits

RSUs

About the Company

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, 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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

At Nubank, we believe that diversity is essential to building the best products and services.
We are committed to creating a welcoming work environment that respects and values diversity in all its forms, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.
This offer is conditional on meeting all applicable regulatory eligibility requirements and successful completion of background checks.
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.