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You will diagnose and evolve Nu’s insurance platform architecture for scale, and own the rollout of AI/agentic tooling across the team’s engineering workflow, including observability, testing, and CI/CD integration.
A senior/Staff engineer with proven large‑scale systems leadership, strong platform engineering skills, mentorship experience, and solid foundational knowledge of AI/LLM concepts, preferably from fintech or regulated domains.
The role unlocks the ability to serve more customers, expand product offerings, and safely embed AI into core insurance services, directly driving Nu’s growth, risk management, and customer impact.
Engineers who thrive on technical leadership in ambiguous, cross‑functional settings, enjoy building infrastructure at scale, and are eager to champion AI‑first practices in a regulated, fast‑moving fintech environment.
About Nu
Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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About the role
Our mission is to evolve the platform architecture and workflows that let Insurance scale across more customers, more products, and new markets, and to close the gap between AI capabilities built centrally and their reliable adoption in production.
As a Staff Software Engineer - Insurance, you will be a senior technical leader across two connected fronts: diagnosing and evolving our service architecture as the platform scales, and leading the rollout of AI/agentic tooling across the team's engineering workflow, from spec and code generation to testing and validation.
You will operate at platform scale, building infrastructure and practices other teams depend on, while partnering closely with Product, Data, Security, Compliance, and Insurance partners. You'll be part of a lean, entrepreneurial team that delivers outsized business impact while protecting millions of customers, sitting at the intersection of embedded insurance, Nu's most important customer surfaces, and our insurer partners. This team is also one of the earliest adopters of agentic engineering within Nubank, putting you at the center of how that transformation actually happens.
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For this role, we offer a competitive, global-level package that currently includes:
Specific benefits may vary slightly by country and will be detailed during the process.
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If you want to help evolve the architecture and AI-powered workflows that let Nubank’s Insurance platform scale across products and markets — combining deep systems thinking with hands-on agentic engineering — we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now to be our Staff Software Engineer – Insurance.
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.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
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