The Role
The Senior Analytics Engineer at Nubank leads end-to-end data projects, designs data pipelines, optimizes ETL processes, and collaborates with stakeholders to create data solutions that support business decisions and improve data governance.
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About Us
Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 127 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people, we are redefining financial services in Latin America and this is still just the beginning of the purple future we're building.Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human.
Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Bank. Visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/
About The Role
End-to-End Data Projects: leading data projects with high autonomy, from requirements gathering and stakeholder alignment to database modeling and data delivery.
Data Pipelines & Ingestion: designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines, sometimes from scratch, ensuring reliability, scalability and performance.
Data Platform Engineering: contributing to the design, documentation, maintenance, monitoring and optimization of our data codebase and tools.
ETL/ELT Optimization: identifying opportunities to improve scalability, performance and reliability across our ETL/ELT platforms.
Business Translation: translating business needs into data products and solutions aligned with Nubank’s data platform tools, architecture and long-term strategy.
Stakeholder Partnership: negotiating and defining data strategies with technical and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions, always aligned with Nubank’s data governance principles.
Mentorship & Data Literacy: acting as a mentor to team members and contributing to data literacy initiatives across Nubank.
As Analytics Engineers at Nubank, we are the bridge between the business needs and the data platform. We make data available to the entire company, always thinking about the best modeling, governance and performance. In addition, we share best practices and create new tools so that everyone who consumes the data can work in a more organized, efficient and secure way.
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Data Analysts are now called Analytics Engineers
Nubank is looking for a bold and impact-driven Analytics Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This is a full-time opportunity focused on designing, building and scaling data solutions that enable better decision-making across the company. Our Analytics Engineer team operates at scale, supporting multiple business domains with reliable, high-quality and well-governed data products. The role sits at the intersection of data architecture, engineering excellence and business impact, with high autonomy to lead end-to-end data initiatives and influence our data strategy.
You'll be responsible for
End-to-End Data Projects: leading data projects with high autonomy, from requirements gathering and stakeholder alignment to database modeling and data delivery.
Data Pipelines & Ingestion: designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines, sometimes from scratch, ensuring reliability, scalability and performance.
Data Platform Engineering: contributing to the design, documentation, maintenance, monitoring and optimization of our data codebase and tools.
ETL/ELT Optimization: identifying opportunities to improve scalability, performance and reliability across our ETL/ELT platforms.
Business Translation: translating business needs into data products and solutions aligned with Nubank’s data platform tools, architecture and long-term strategy.
Stakeholder Partnership: negotiating and defining data strategies with technical and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions, always aligned with Nubank’s data governance principles.
Mentorship & Data Literacy: acting as a mentor to team members and contributing to data literacy initiatives across Nubank.
We're looking for someone who has
- Solid experience in Data Architecture & Design, working in complex and/or large-scale data environments.
- Strong ability to write highly optimized SQL queries to solve complex problems and perform data modeling.
- Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining data pipelines from scratch.
- Strong programming experience with general-purpose languages (e.g. Python, Scala, R).
- Passion for data and building high-quality data products.
- Excellent communication skills to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices (documentation, automated tests, clean code, etc.).
- Experience with analytical data architectures and modeling techniques (e.g. Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Mart).
- Familiarity with distributed data systems and parallel processing.
- Ability to abstract business concepts into quantitative metrics (e.g. KPIs, OKRs).
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau or similar.
- Advanced English (B2+ according to CEFR).
Our 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 Model for this Role
Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
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Skills Required
- Solid experience in Data Architecture & Design
- Strong ability to write highly optimized SQL queries
- Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining data pipelines from scratch
- Strong programming experience with general-purpose languages (e.g. Python, Scala, R)
- Excellent communication skills to work with both technical and business stakeholders
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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The Company
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.
