Lead Mobile Engineer

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America serving 135 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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Nu is building a new generation of crypto experiences that make sophisticated financial capabilities feel simple and trustworthy. As a Lead Software Engineer on our Palo Alto crypto team you will build the customer-facing mobile and full-stack experiences that bring Nubanks global crypto offering to life - from the first interaction through the services that power it.

Your scope will be a meaningful product area not a single screen or an isolated service. You will lead team-level technical design own delivery across mobile and backend boundaries and make the tradeoffs required to create intuitive experiences without weakening security correctness performance or reliability.

You will work closely with product design backend and platform engineering security and compliance partners. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with responsibility for mentoring engineers improving team practices and remaining accountable for production health after launch.

• Lead the design implementation launch and operation of customer-facing mobile and full-stack crypto experiences.

• Own complete product flows across mobile interfaces APIs service integrations data and state management release readiness and post-launch health.

• Translate complex concepts such as wallets asset movement and onchain transactions into clear understandable customer experiences.

• Make independent team-level architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs across usability security performance reliability and delivery speed.

• Build resilient transactional experiences with deliberate validation error handling recovery paths testing and observability.

• Coordinate dependencies with backend platform security compliance product and design partners to move initiatives from ambiguity to production.

• Mentor engineers and raise the teams standards for mobile architecture code quality operational ownership and customer-centered engineering.

Required

• Strong experience building and operating production mobile applications combined with the ability to work across APIs and backend services or equivalent full-stack depth with meaningful mobile delivery experience.

• A track record of independently leading a medium-term engineering initiative from technical design through production operation.

• Strong foundations in client architecture state management API contracts testing performance and reliability.

• Product judgment and experience simplifying complex or high-stakes workflows for customers.

• Experience designing and operating transactional or security-sensitive product features.

• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate effectively with product design and engineering partners.

• Experience mentoring engineers and improving team-level engineering practices.

Nice to have

• Experience building crypto wallet digital-asset or onchain product experiences.

• First-hand familiarity with crypto products and user journeys through professional work building or sustained personal use.

• Experience in fintech payments banking or another regulated product environment.

• Depth in one or more native or cross-platform mobile ecosystems.

• Experience delivering products across multiple markets platforms or customer contexts.

Palo Alto United States

• Opportunity of earning equity at Nu

• Medical Insurance

• Dental and Vision Insurance

• Life Insurance and AD&D

• Extended maternity and paternity leaves

• Nucleo Our learning platform of courses

• NuLanguage Our language learning program

• NuCare Our mental health and wellness assistance program

• 401K

• Saving Plans Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account

• Work-from-home Allowance

• Relocation Assistance Package if applicable

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 how we build technology at Nubank:

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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