Sr Staff Software Engineer - CC Core Platforms
About Nubank
Nu is the world’s largest digital banking platform outside of Asia, serving over 123 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 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. The Company is preparing for its next growth cycle where it will accelerate its internationalization process outside Latin America, and will also enter new verticals beyond financial services in its core markets taking advantage of the significant customer penetration.
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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical evolution of our Credit Card platform. This is not a traditional maintenance role. You will be the architect of a profound transformation: leveraging Generative AI to automate complex operational tasks and orchestrating the global migration from our current systems to a unified, future-proof architecture. You will be a key partner to the Engineering Leadership and a reference for the entire engineering community.
Mission
Your goal is to design and operationalize a technical strategy that uses AI to increase operational efficiency while accelerating our global migration, ensuring:
- Intelligent Maintenance: Implementing AI agents to analyze tickets and crashes, automating resolutions for the global credit card environment.
- Seamless Migration: Leading the coexistence strategy between legacy and new platforms across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, ensuring data integrity and a flawless customer experience.
- Technical Excellence: Solving deep architectural bottlenecks in high-scale distributed systems and raising the bar for software design globally.
Core Responsibilities
- Migration Strategy: Define the long-term roadmap for decommissioning legacy systems, starting with the 1-year migration plan for the Colombian market.
- AI-Driven Engineering: Architect and integrate AI solutions (cloud-based agents) to automate infrastructure maintenance and data migration.
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with General Managers, PMs, and Staff+ ICs to align technical decisions with business needs across different countries.
- Mentorship & Culture: Mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of pragmatism, excellence in distributed systems, and the adoption of cutting-edge AI tools.
Challenges & Opportunities
- Navigating Complexity: You will work on high-scale systems supporting millions of transactions where every decision impacts customer limits and billing.
- Modernizing the Core: You have the unique opportunity to make "legacy" systems attractive and efficient by applying AI to remove heavy operational toil.
Core Qualifications (What We’re Looking For)
- Proven Track Record: 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems.
- Migration Mastery: Proven experience leading critical system migrations and managing coexistence between old and new architectures.
- AI Fluency: A strong interest or practical experience in using GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity and data analysis challenges.
- Platform Mindset: Ability to design reusable APIs and contracts that serve multiple product teams with high reliability.
- Global Communication: Fluent English is required to collaborate across our global hubs (Brazil, US, Mexico, and Colombia).
Skills Required
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience leading critical system migrations
- Strong interest or practical experience in using Generative AI
- Ability to design reusable APIs and contracts
- Fluent in English for global communication
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.
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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.
