Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
About the role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven Data Scientist to join our Credit Strategy team. This role focuses on applying innovative machine learning methodologies to our risk model and developing causal machine learning approaches for the initial line assignment workflow.
You will be responsible for
- Translate business challenges into specific and well-designed machine learning solutions that meet business requirements;
- Integrate and leverage external data sources to feed our models;
- Ensure the team maintains a high level of technical excellence;
- Contribute to a technical culture in the local team.
- Bring expertise to the team to help design projects across the many areas involved in building machine learning products (training, deployment, data consistency, monitoring, governance, etc.)
We are looking for a person who has
- Strong coding skills Python/Scala or equivalent languages;
- Experimental design skills;
- Ability to interact and communicate effectively with business and engineering;
- Good understanding of model development and deployment pipeline;
- Experience with machine learning tools and libraries such as Scikit-learn, Mllib and etc;
- Nice data handling skills, Spark Dataframes, or SQL proficiency is a plus;
- English language proficiency.
Local Benefits
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank
- Extended maternity and paternity leaves
- Health and life insurance
- NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- NuLanguage - Our language learning program
- Gym partnership
At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.
Skills Required
- Strong coding skills in Python/Scala or equivalent languages
- Experimental design skills
- Ability to interact and communicate effectively with business and engineering
- Good understanding of model development and deployment pipeline
- Experience with machine learning tools and libraries such as Scikit-learn, Mllib
- Nice data handling skills, Spark Dataframes, SQL proficiency is a plus
- English language proficiency
Nubank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nubank and has not been reviewed or approved by Nubank.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive, especially for tech roles in Brazil/LatAm, with strong top‑of‑band packages reported for senior and product/design positions. Salaries are often described as good, contributing to broadly positive pay sentiment.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity opportunities (typically RSUs) are widely available across postings and regarded as a meaningful component of total compensation. This equity element strengthens overall packages, particularly for technical and product roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is extended and gender‑neutral across countries, with additional childcare support and parental counseling in Brazil. These family‑focused policies enhance the perceived value of the benefits package.
Nubank Insights
What We Do
Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving more than 70 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. As one of the leading technology companies in the world, Nu leverages proprietary technologies and innovative business practices to create new financial solutions and experiences for individuals and SMEs that are simple, intuitive, convenient, low-cost, empowering, and human. Guided by its mission, Nu is fostering access to financial services across Latin America.
