Lead Software Engineer - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid)

The role

You will serve as a technical authority shaping engineering strategy and driving the architectural evolution of large-scale distributed systems. You will lead architectural vision, partner with leaders on technical bets, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Defining long-term technical vision and architecture roadmaps
• Partnering with Leaders to translate business strategy into engineering systems
• Setting and raising the technical bar through systemic improvements and reviews
• Hands-on leadership in designing and executing complex, high-risk systems
• Mentoring engineers
• Establishing team practices for observability, failure domain isolation, disaster recovery, and incident resolution

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience engineering complex digital products
• Mastery of distributed systems design, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and failure-mode analysis
• Demonstrated history of steering large-scale technical initiatives
• Experience mentoring engineers
• Exceptional communication skills to articulate technical trade-offs and decisions
• Advanced English skills (both written and spoken)

Nice to have

• Experience with our tech stack

Benefits

• Chance of earning equity
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• NuCare
• International business travel insurance
• NuLanguage
• Vacations
• Parental leaves
• Work from home allowance

Before you apply

• Recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools
• 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.