Lead Software Engineer - BR

The role

The Lead Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines, distributed systems, and ML-enabled solutions. They will lead data and engineering projects end-to-end and partner with stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions.

What you will do

• Work with large scale distributed systems
• Collaborate with building microservices
• Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines, distributed systems and ML-enabled solutions
• Deploy and maintain ML models in both batch and real-time scenarios
• Lead data and engineering projects end-to-end
• Contribute to the design, documentation, maintenance and optimization of our data codebase, platforms and tooling
• Translate business needs into data products and technical solutions
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define strategies
• Share knowledge, mentor peers and contribute to engineering and data literacy initiatives

Required qualifications

• Deep programming experience in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g. Python, Clojure, Scala, Java)
• Experience designing analytical data environments and data engineering solutions: pipelines, ETL/ELT, and data modeling
• Understanding of ML model lifecycle, from training and evaluation to deployment and monitoring
• Experience guiding the technical design of distributed systems, microservices and asynchronous architectures
• Strong communication skills to influence and align both technical and business stakeholders
• Passion for building and leading the delivery of high-quality software and data products

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Knowledge of data architecture patterns (Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Mart)
• Familiarity with ML frameworks and feature engineering pipelines
• Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Power BI, Tableau or similar)
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices: testing, clean code, documentation

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
• Life Insurance, Medical Plan and Dental Plan
• NuLanguage – Language Course Program
• Nucleo – Our learning platform
• Extended Parental Leave, Daycare Allowance and Parental Consultancy
• Work-from-home Allowance
• Gym Partnerships
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

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.