Nubank
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Palo Alto
Employer listed it 5 days ago · Added yesterday
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Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Palo Alto
Timezone
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Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Palo Alto, Virginia, Miami, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Palo Alto, Virginia, Miami, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid" and 2 days per week in the office
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About the role
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. Visit our Institutional Page
About the role We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the overarching strategy, technical vision, and execution across Nubank’s Quality & Developer Experience ecosystem. You will sit at the epicenter of our engineering transformation.
This role goes far beyond traditional quality assurance or testing; you will own the end-to-end (E2E) Developer Experience (DevEx) across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). From internal developer platform tools and boundary APIs to our suite of testing mechanisms and automated code reviews, your mission will be to architect AI-native systems that drastically reduce review latency, guarantee architectural correctness, and double engineering productivity across Nubank. Working alongside our most tenured engineering leaders and reporting into platform leadership, you will serve as the technical authority who brings fresh, market-leading perspectives from high-velocity environments to elevate our foundational standards.
Mission Architect, scale, and operationalize an AI-transformed Developer Experience & Quality strategy so that:
The "Secure and Quality Path" is the Default: Automated mechanisms, linting, and smart context-aware agents enforce strict architectural standards, eliminating code quality degradation caused by high-volume AI code generation.
Developer Velocity Doubles (2x): The friction in review latency, pull request (PR) approvals, and continuous integration is systematically dismantled, enabling thousands of engineers to ship features safely to 140M+ customers at unprecedented speeds.
SDLC is Re-imagined for AI: Foundational tools across code authorship, testing, boundary APIs, and PR reviews are seamlessly integrated with state-of-the-art AI frameworks, smart LLM evaluations, and context-engineering hooks.
Automated Approval Standards are Built: Clear deterministic checks and intelligent human-in-the-loop triggers are established to achieve safe, automated PR approvals without manual bottlenecks.
Core Responsibilities
Architect E2E Quality & DevEx Platforms: Define and evolve the multi-year vision for our developer tooling ecosystem—covering internal developer platforms, boundary APIs, test automation suites, and pull request review systems.
Lead the AI-Driven Code Review Evolution: Architect automated review mechanisms that leverage multi-model evaluations (e.g., using specialized LLMs to audit generated code), custom IDE/GitHub plugins, and deterministic linting to accelerate PR merge times while preventing code bloat or quality degradation.
Define Human-in-the-Loop Boundaries: Set company-wide paradigms for when code changes can be automatically approved and merged versus when human intervention or secondary AI audits are required.
Partner & Mentor Across Engineering: Act as a force multiplier by partnering with engineers and product managers, elevating the technical bar and instilling modern, high-velocity DevEx practices.
Balance AI Speed with System Integrity: Establish observability, defect-tracking metrics, and safety rails to ensure that rapid AI-assisted development does not introduce structural fragility into Nubank's core services.
Influence Build vs. Buy Strategy: Evaluate top-tier market tools, AI coding frameworks, and internal platforms to decide when to build bespoke internal agents or integrate emerging third-party tooling.
Key Business & Engineering Metrics You Will Influence
Developer Productivity & Velocity
Achieve a 2x improvement in overall engineering productivity across Nubank's engineering organization.
PR Review Latency
Direct reduction in time-to-merge for pull requests across all BUs and countries.
Code Base Health & Quality
Zero degradation in code quality and zero increase in system defects despite exponentially higher volumes of AI-generated code.
Requirements
- ·Senior IC Leadership Track Record: backend software engineering experience, with a proven track record designing developer platforms, core infra, or DevEx systems at high scale.
- ·Deep DevEx & SDLC Expertise: Extensive domain depth in code review systems, test automation platforms, CI/CD pipelines, developer platforms, or static analysis tools built for massive engineering organizations.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Nubank, mentioning your remote working experience.
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