Staff Software Engineer

The role

You will act as a senior technical leader for Nubank's Mexico division, defining long-term architecture using Domain-Driven Design. You will guide technical strategy across squads in Growth, Operations and Core Value Prop, and mentor senior engineers.

What you will do

• Define and lead the long-term architecture vision for the Mexico division using Domain-Driven Design.
• Steer technical strategy across Growth, Operations and Core Value Prop squads.
• Mentor and develop senior engineering talent across chapters.
• Work with engineering directors and executives to turn business goals into scalable system designs and roadmaps.
• Drive technical agreement across teams on critical initiatives and trade-offs.
• Improve operational resilience, observability and reliability across customer acquisition funnels.

Required qualifications

• Track record of technical leadership as a Staff-level engineer, or equivalent scope, guiding distributed systems architecture across multiple teams.
• Deep practical experience applying Domain-Driven Design to design and scale event-driven microservices.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional technical roadmaps without direct hierarchical authority.
• Experience architecting mission-critical, high-throughput systems where fault tolerance, reliability and low latency are essential.
• Professional working proficiency in English, with experience communicating architecture to technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Professional working proficiency in Spanish, or experience building digital products for the Latin American market (specifically Mexico).
• Background designing high-conversion growth, onboarding or acquisition engines in large consumer technology or fintech.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native ecosystems, functional programming (e.g., Clojure, Scala) or distributed event streaming (e.g., Apache Kafka).
• Track record of building and scaling systems at top-tier global technology companies.

Before you apply

• Recruitment may use AI-enabled tools such as automated interview transcription and analysis; final hiring decisions are made by human reviewers.
• Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback to candidates.

About the company

Nu serves more than 140 million customers with a mission to fight financial complexity and empower people. The company uses proprietary technology and data to promote financial access, advancement and transparency.