Mobile Engineering Manager

About Us

Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world with more than 122 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 were 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 Companys Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Worlds Best Bank. Visit our institutional page Nubanks Mobile Platform and App Core

The Mobile Platforms mission aligns with Nubanks commitment to delivering the best experience for our customers by ensuring a high-performing stable and seamless app.
Within Mobile Platform App Core focuses on providing user-friendly scalable high-performing and cost-efficient app infrastructure components and mobile tools that enable Nubank engineers to quickly and safely test deploy monitor analyze and improve app flows and features.

App Core is at the heart of the Nubank apps foundation powering app performance infrastructure scalability and the removal of legacy dependencies to allow our application to grow from millions to potentially billions of fanatic customers.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the App Core squad a cross-impact engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the core mobile app infrastructure optimizing performance and enabling product teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences.

This is a strategic leadership role requiring a strong technical foundation excellent people management skills and the ability to align execution with Nubanks long-term mobile strategy. You will guide the team to eliminate bottlenecks improve app startup time reduce native dependencies and drive infrastructure modernization all while fostering a culture of high performance and collaboration.

What Youll Do

• Lead and Grow the AppCore Team
  Build mentor and inspire a high-performing team of mobile engineers fostering technical excellence ownership and innovation.
  
  
• Set Vision and Strategy
  Define and drive the AppCore roadmap in alignment with Mobile Platforms mission and Nubanks two-year engineering vision including initiatives like achieving sub-500ms App Ready to Use startup times.
• Ensure Technical Excellence
  Oversee the design development and maintenance of scalable app infrastructure components and tools ensuring performance reliability and cost efficiency.
• Cross-Team Collaboration
  Partner with Product Engineering squads to enable faster and safer delivery of mobile features guiding them in best practices for mobile architecture performance optimization instrumentation and observability.
• Drive Performance Improvements
  Lead efforts to reduce app startup time optimize critical paths migrate core systems and remove legacy/native dependencies.
• Operational Leadership
  Ensure the adoption and effective use of internal mobile tools such as monitoring (Prometheus Honeycomb) error tracking (Sentry) and performance profiling.
• Stakeholder Management
  Collaborate closely with leaders across engineering product and design to align priorities balance trade-offs and remove roadblocks.

What Were Looking For

Must Have:

• Proven experience managing mobile engineering teams or senior-level technical leadership in mobile development.
• Strong technical background with Flutter and/or native mobile development (Android/iOS).
• Solid understanding of mobile software engineering principles architectural patterns and modularization strategies.
• Experience with performance optimization dependency injection and migration of core systems.
• Knowledge of mobile observability monitoring and debugging tools.
• Strong communication skills in English with the ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Track record of delivering results in ambiguous fast-paced environments.
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Experience with backend technologies especially those integrated with mobile applications.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale app architecture.
• Contributions to internal SDKs libraries or mobile design systems.
• Understanding of user authentication session management and app state handling.
• Experience leading cross-functional or cross-impact engineering initiatives.

Why Join Us

• Impact at Scale: Help shape the mobile experience for millions of customers across multiple countries with the goal of reaching billions.
• Technical Leadership: Influence the architecture and foundational technologies that all Nubank engineers rely on.
• Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a dynamic collaborative environment that values experimentation continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Career Growth: Develop as a strategic engineering leader working on complex technical and organizational challenges.

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 Experience:

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