Senior Staff Software Engineer - Remittance

The role

You will own the overarching architecture for Nu's global Remittance and Cross-Border Payment Platforms. You will design technical visions for multi-currency money movement, global rail integrations, and resilient ledgering systems.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the long-term technical vision for multi-currency money movement, FX rate locking, payout routing, and ledgering.
• Architect plug-and-play integrations with global payout partners, banking networks, and local clearing rails.
• Build transaction execution engines for exact-once delivery, ledger balancing, and real-time liquidity management.
• Partner with compliance and risk teams to embed real-time screening into payment paths.
• Drive cross-organizational consensus on architectural decisions through RFCs and design reviews.
• Mentor senior engineers in distributed systems principles, resilience engineering, and payment domain knowledge.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of designing, operating, and scaling highly available, mission-critical backend distributed platforms.
• Hands-on experience building remittance systems, cross-border payments, multi-currency ledger engines, FX execution services, or integrations with international payment clearing systems.
• High fluency with event-driven architectures, transactional consistency, distributed sagas/orchestration, double-entry accounting engines, and high-concurrency microservices.
• Experience designing clean, developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and platform boundaries.
• Proven ability to act as a horizontal technical leader and guide executive leadership on technical trade-offs.
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Portuguese
• Spanish

Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nu
• NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Medical Plan
• NuLanguage – Language Course Program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• Extended Parental Leave
• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Before you apply

• Recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis.
• Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback.

About the company

Nu serves more than 140 million customers with a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company uses proprietary technology and data at scale to power its digital platform.