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Define the long‑term technical direction and own the architecture of the Lending Foundations platform, including schema evolution, data contracts, event pipelines, and observability for shared infrastructure used across multiple countries.
A senior engineer with at least 6 months in a Staff role, deep experience in Nubank’s stack (Datomic, Kafka, Scala, Clojure), strong data‑at‑scale reasoning, and a track record of driving architectural alignment and mentoring senior engineers.
The platform powers Nu’s global lending expansion, directly influencing how new lending products are built and launched in Brazil, the US, Mexico, Colombia and future markets, delivering high business impact and visibility.
A technically seasoned leader who thrives on platform‑scale challenges, enjoys shaping data‑driven architectures, and wants to influence cross‑team engineering, data, and product outcomes.
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
The Global Lending Foundations team, within our Global Lending BU, is building the platform that fundamentally changes how we design, build, and roll out lending decisions across new geographies.
Our mission is to create the tools and evolve the architecture that make it dramatically easier to launch lending products in new countries, with high business impact and direct exposure to Nu’s global expansion.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader in this platform layer: defining the long-horizon technical direction for how Lending platforms scale across countries, products, and partners, and shaping how every future lending product is built across Brazil, the US, Mexico, Colombia and future markets.
You will operate at platform scale — building shared infrastructure that other teams depend on for years — while working in a highly engaged, multi-level engineering group and partnering closely with product and business leaders.
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Location for this opportunity
(We hire for one location; final base will be defined during the process.)
Work Model for this Role
Benefits vary by country but are highly competitive in each market. For this role, they typically include:
Exact details and eligibility will be confirmed during the interview process, according to local regulations.
Join us
If you want to help design the platform that will power Nu’s lending products in every new market we enter — combining deep architecture, event-driven systems, and global impact — we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now to be our Staff Software Engineer in Brazil hubs.
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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