Nubank

Staff Software Engineer - Deposits

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · São Paulo

Employer listed it 6 days ago · Added yesterday

First listed 6 days ago and still open.

Salary

$19,200–$24,000 a week

Location

Hybrid · São Paulo

Work style

Async

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around São Paulo, Campinas, Palo Alto, Toronto, Belo Horizonte, Virginia, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "São Paulo, Campinas, Palo Alto, Toronto, Belo Horizonte, Virginia, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid" and 2 days per week in the office

What Nomaders makes of it

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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

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 team’s primary technical leaders, shaping the platform’s medium- and long-term evolution while remaining hands-on in the most critical and complex areas.

You’ll be Responsible for

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 platform’s most critical or complex components

What We're Looking For Someone Who Has

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.

Requirements

·2 days per week at the office.
·For Palo Alto: Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits. Base salary range: $19.200 - $24.000
·Chance of earning equity at Nubank;
·Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
·Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)

Benefits

·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
·NuLanguage – Language Course Program

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 and working hours (Async).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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