Staff Software Engineer - Insurance

São Paulo, Remote. Posted 3 months ago

The role

The Staff Software Engineer - Insurance will evolve platform architecture and lead the rollout of AI/agentic tooling. This role involves building infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional teams to scale insurance products.

What you will do

Diagnosing and evolving platform architecture to support scale and global expansion.
Providing AI-first engineering leadership and setting standards for AI/agentic tooling.
Aligning cross-functional teams around clear outcomes.
Ensuring observability for AI systems and platform services in production.
Mentoring engineers on technical approach and AI/agentic best practices.
Evaluating and incorporating internal and external AI tools and agents into workflows.
Partnering with central AI/platform teams and other business units.
Enabling engineers and non-engineers to safely contribute to AI-powered products.
Embedding responsible, auditable practices per regulations and internal risk standards.

Required qualifications

Proven technical leadership as a senior/staff engineer delivering high-impact, large-scale software systems in production.
Track record of mentoring and uplifting peers on technical approach and AI-native workflows.
Strong systems/platform engineering experience in architecture, CI/CD, and test automation.
Genuine interest and foundational knowledge of AI/LLM concepts.
Ownership mindset for rolling out AI/agentic tooling across a team.
Strong full-stack thinking to design maintainable codebases and APIs.
Experience navigating ambiguous, cross-functional projects.
Demonstrated strategic acumen linking technical initiatives to business drivers.
Experience in fintech or other regulated industries.
Advanced English for daily collaboration in a global environment.

Nice to have

AI-first mindset with professional experience implementing LLMs, generative AI, agentic patterns and/or RAG systems.
Solid understanding of prompt engineering, tool calling, context management, and agent loops.
Experience building or contributing to automated test/CI-CD evaluation frameworks.
Background in insurance or embedded insurance products.
Experience scaling products across international markets and languages.
Familiarity with Portuguese and/or Spanish to read or review customer-facing copy.
Prior experience in AI-first startups or big-tech environments with strong AI/ML teams.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and company equity
Bi-annual trips to Brazil to build relationships with coworkers
Top-tier Medical Insurance
Top-tier Dental and Vision Insurance
Generous time off and company holidays
Life Insurance and AD&D
Extended maternity and paternity leaves
NuLanguage – our language learning program
NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program

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.