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Nu is the world's largest digital banking platform outside of Asia, serving over 127 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers' complete financial journey — promoting financial access with responsible lending and transparency. Recognised by Time 100 Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World's Best Banks, Nu is now entering its next growth cycle: accelerating internationalisation outside Latin America and expanding into new verticals beyond financial services.
The People Analytics Technology Operations (PATO) team is redefining what People & Culture infrastructure looks like for a company operating at global scale with an AI-first mandate. We don't run HR software — we build the systems that make HR itself obsolete in its traditional form. Our work touches every Nubanker, every country, every moment of the employee lifecycle. We are the internal frontier lab for agentic people systems.
Here is the core question this role exists to answer: if you were designing People & Culture infrastructure from scratch today — knowing that AI agents will run most operations, humans will audit rather than execute, and the channels and surfaces workers interact with don't fully exist yet — what would you build?
This isn't a rhetorical question. It's the actual brief.
The SaaS era of HR technology is being disrupted faster than most incumbents can adapt. Workday, SAP, ServiceNow — products built for a world of human workflows and form-based interfaces — are structurally ill-equipped for an agent-native operating model. The real competitive moat in this next era won't be features. It will be the depth of integration within a specific domain, and the quality of the data and reasoning layer that sits beneath it. We have the rare opportunity to build that solution — purpose-built for the People & Culture domain — inside one of the most technically ambitious companies in the world.
As Global People Data & Tech Director, you will lead the effort to design and build this from the ground up. You will define what the agentic HR stack looks like: the data models that make agents actually useful, the orchestration layer that lets them act with minimal human friction, the audit surfaces that let people stay in control without becoming bottlenecks, and the foundational platform that scales to 40+ markets without scaling the team that builds it. Agentic development practices aren't a side methodology here — they are how this organisation will operate. You build with agents, you build for agents, and your team stays lean precisely because of it.
This role isn't for someone who has deep experience with HR software. It's for someone who looks at HR software and sees an industry ripe to be rebuilt. You are a product and infrastructure thinker who happens to care deeply about the employee experience — and who has the technical depth and organisational leadership to translate that vision into production systems used by hundreds of thousands of people.
We are not looking for someone who has spent their career in HR technology. We are looking for someone who has built consequential software systems, who thinks seriously about agents and automation, and who is intellectually excited by the opportunity to apply that background to a domain that is fundamentally underbuilt.
Location: São Paulo, Mexico City, Bogotá, or US (Palo Alto, Miami, or Virginia) | Location-Specific Disclosures
Reports To: Suzana Kubric, CHRO at Nubank
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Nubank was founded in 2013 to free people from a bureaucratic, slow and inefficient financial system. Since then, through innovative technology and outstanding customer service, the company has been redefining people's relationships with money across Latin America. With operations in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, Nubank is today one of the largest digital banking platforms and technology-leading companies in the world. Nubank was listed on the NYSE in 2021 and was recently named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies. For more information, visit nu.com.br.
At Nubank, we are entering a new chapter for our Investments business. We are moving away from traditional, siloed financial systems toward a global, scalable platform architecture that empowers millions of customers to grow their wealth. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a cornerstone of this transformation, ensuring our engineering culture and technical strategy can support the next decade of growth.
You will join the Investments Platforms team, where we build the core engines for custody, offers, and orders. Your mission is to "dehydrate" legacy systems by designing extensible, agnostic solutions that handle everything from fixed income to equities. This isn't just about writing code; it's about leading a cultural and technical revival, influencing your peers to adopt the best architectural practices while keeping the "plane flying" as we migrate critical flows.
This role is based in São Paulo or Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on a Hybrid model (2 times per week) at our office.
At Nubank, we believe that diversity is essential to building the best products and services. We are committed to creating a welcoming work environment that respects and values diversity in all its forms, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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This position is for an Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Investments Business Unit.
Investments Platforms is responsible for the core platforms that model Nubank’s investments business: custody, offer, order management, accounts, settlement and related domains. These platforms are the long‑term home for our investments capabilities and the main path to move away from legacy Invest systems that still handle a large portion of critical flows today. Your mandate is to help design, evolve and execute this environment and comply with regulatory requirements.
We believe in small, empowered teams, a process‑light environment and a culture of ownership, learning and collaboration. Our architecture is platform‑oriented: we build extensible, agnostic business platforms (e.g., payments, banking, investments) that can be reused across products, markets and asset classes. You will be expected to think in terms of platforms first, translating complex investment domains into clean boundaries, contracts and abstractions that product teams can safely build on.
Nubank is also on a company‑wide journey to become an AI‑first company. We expect our senior engineers to be hands‑on with AI tools in their own work, and to help define how AI is used safely and productively in engineering and in products.
Own the technical direction of Investments Platforms – the systems that implement Nubank’s investments business model in software (custody, offer, orders, account, settlement and more) and power how we scale investments in Brazil and future markets.
Lead the migration off legacy Invest systems: design and execute strategies to move critical flows into modern Nubank platforms, while we continue operating at scale and meeting regulatory commitments.
Work on a disruptive investments architecture – rethinking how investments should be modeled and operated end‑to‑end, rather than just lifting and shifting existing broker or custodian patterns.
Drive AI usage in a high‑impact domain: help define how we use AI in investments – both in the products we ship and in how we design, build and operate platforms.
Collaborate across the platform ecosystem – working closely with other business and technical platforms such as Payments and Banking, and with product squads that consume Investments Platforms.
Global scope with hybrid flexibility: roles are based in Brazil, in a hybrid‑first model (office presence during the week plus periodic on‑site collaboration with other locations).
12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years working on large‑scale platforms or core systems in highly available, transactional environments (finance, payments, core banking, trading, etc.).
Proven track record building and operating business platforms that are extensible, multi‑tenant and domain‑agnostic – e.g., custody, payments, banking, risk or similar – with clear contracts for consuming teams.
Experience leading strategic migrations from legacy to new architectures: co‑existence patterns, strangler approaches, staged rollouts and data migration strategies that keep systems up while flows move off legacy.
Strong foundation in distributed systems and event‑driven architectures: domain modeling, consistency and resiliency strategies, backpressure, observability, SLIs/SLOs and incident learning loops.
Demonstrated platform engineering leadership at scale: defining reference architectures and RFCs, building reusable libraries and tools, setting platform SLAs, and making adoption low‑friction and high‑quality for internal customers.
Comfortable working as a horizontal leader across stakeholders: aligning GMs, PMs, EMs and Staff/Principals on trade‑offs between speed, risk, platform consistency and product goals.
Deep experience mentoring and multiplying senior engineers – raising the bar on architecture, design reviews, documentation and post‑incident retrospectives.
Investments expertise: hands‑on experience with investments platforms (brokerage, custody, order management, funds, fixed income, equities, settlement, risk) and understanding of the Brazilian capital markets landscape.
Platform background: prior work on other platforms (payments, core banking, investments) that shows you can design high‑abstraction, agnostic, extensible platforms and translate complex domains into clean boundaries and APIs.
AI fluency: you are already experimenting with AI in your engineering practice (design exploration, code generation/review, analysis, automation) and are excited to help Nubank push its AI‑first agenda in a pragmatic, safe way.
Language: Portuguese fluency is important; English is a plus rather than a hard requirement. We are open to strong IC8 candidates who can ramp up their English over time, and will trade off language in favor of outstanding technical and leadership fit where it makes sense.
Resilience and ownership mindset: you are energized by ambiguous, high‑stakes scenarios, keep a constructive and optimistic stance, and actively pull teams toward positive cultural change instead of getting stuck in pessimism or only in the micro level.
If you feel interested in these challenges and want to work on a highly engaged and talented team transforming how investments work in Brazil and beyond, this is the place for you!
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