Who We're Looking For

• We're looking for an Engineer who has been in the role for at least 6 months and is ready to take on platform-scale challenges with broad architectural reach. This role is perfect for you if you:
• Are comfortable reasoning about data at scale: the events and state this platform produces feed decisioning and analytics across the BU, so you think about schema evolution, data contracts, model & policies pipelines, and observability of what you build as first-class architectural concerns.
• Own the data side of platform architecture: schema evolution, data contracts, and how the events and state you design get consumed downstream for decisioning and analytics across the BU.
• Bring analytics rigor into architectural decisions: data quality, lineage, and observability aren't someone else's job, they're part of how you design the platform from day one.
• Have deep experience with Nubank's tech stack, including Datomic, Kafka, Scala and Clojure, and are comfortable making it bend to the problem rather than the other way around.
• Have a track record of driving alignment on hard architectural decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders, and of mentoring senior engineers toward Staff.
• Are ready to be a key technical leader on platforms teams where the main customers are other engineering, data and product teams, and where your decisions directly shape what they can ship and how fast.

Location for this opportunity

This role can be based in one of the following hubs:

• São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, or Belo Horizonte – Brazil (We hire for one location; final base will be defined during the process.)

Work Model for this Role

• Hybrid 2–3 times/week: 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/

Our Benefits

Benefits vary by country but are highly competitive in each market. For this role, they typically include:

• 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

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.