Staff Software Engineer Deposits

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America serving 140 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.

Nus impact has been recognized in multiple awards including Time 100 Most Influential Companies Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Worlds Best Banks.

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The GBA Core Infrastructure / Deposits team builds and operates the platform that makes Nubank accounts work. Whenever money enters or leaves an account our systems create and manage the deposit records behind balances calculate yield and taxes and make funds available for payments transfers Pix debit card purchases and other customer transactions.

We are evolving country-specific legacy systems into a global deposits platform that can support different products regulations and markets with less duplication and safer expansion. This is a backend transactional systems role at the intersection of distributed systems accounting regulation and product platforms.

As a Staff Software Engineer Deposits you will be one of the teams primary technical leaders shaping the platforms medium- and long-term evolution while remaining hands-on in the most critical and complex areas.

• Defining and evolving the target architecture and technical strategy for the global Deposits platform.

• Guiding the next stages of the platform and sequencing migrations from legacy systems while balancing safety business priorities regulatory requirements and sustainable delivery.

• Setting a high technical bar for distributed transaction processing accounting integrity yield and tax calculations reliability observability and operational recovery.

• Leading high-impact technical decisions across services and markets making trade-offs explicit and driving decisions to closure.

• Representing Deposits in cross-team alignment with Product other platform owners and senior stakeholders.

• Turning ambiguous problems into clear technical direction through RFCs design documents migration plans decision records and executable milestones.

• Multiplying the team through mentoring architecture reviews code reviews and reusable engineering standards.

• Remaining hands-on and leading by example on the platforms most critical or complex components

Required

• A Staff-level track record leading architecture and technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems.

• Strong backend engineering depth including asynchronous workflows eventual consistency concurrency high-throughput processing performance and failure recovery.

• Ability to design for the long term while evolving complex systems incrementally and safely.

• Sound judgment in high-impact decisions including the ability to frame options define decision criteria and communicate trade-offs clearly.

• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning teams with different priorities or constraints.

• A multiplier mindset: you create clarity raise the technical bar mentor engineers and enable others to execute independently.

• Comfort navigating ambiguity complex domain rules and different regulatory or product requirements across markets.

• Strong communication skills in English for a global cross-functional environment.

• Ability to deeply learn complex domains and reason about business-critical systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience in financial services banking payments or accounting platforms. Financial-services experience is welcome but not required.

• Experience with Clojure Datomic DynamoDB Redis Kafka or comparable technologies.

• Experience designing platforms that support multiple countries products and regulatory environments.

Location

This role can be based in:

• Brazil

• United States

• Canada

Work model

Hybrid 23 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week on strategic days designed to maximize connection and collaboration. For more details visit requirement

2 days per week at the office.

• 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

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligenceenabled 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.

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