Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform (m/w/d)

D8 LooP; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Nubank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform in Berlin, offering remote options and visa support. You will shape the architecture of streaming systems, orchestration frameworks, and storage engines while collaborating with analytics leads to define APIs and data practices.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Go/Java/Scala, and Airflow, plus a focus on reliability, observability, and GDPR-compliant data handling.

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing high-throughput streaming systems for financial workloads.
• Ability to define internal APIs, tooling, and data models for scalable teams.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, security, and observability practices.

Aufgaben

• Shape the architecture of low-level infrastructure, storage engines, and orchestration frameworks.
• Define internal APIs, developer toolchains, and data modeling standards to accelerate teams company-wide.
• Lead resilience testing, automated failover, and architectural documentation.

Kenntnisse

Streaming design

Data modeling

API design

Resilience testing

Observability

GDPR compliance

Go

Java

Scala

Airflow

AWS

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Go

Java

Scala

Airflow

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform (m/w/d)

Berlin Senior · Remote Relocation / visa support in the posting Data Platform

Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services. Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency.

Skills, with evidence

• Streaming Design and optimize high-throughput streaming and storage architectures using Apache Kafka and distributed database internals for mission-critical financial workloads. must have
• Lead the design of compute orchestration frameworks on large Kubernetes clusters, improving scheduling throughput and resource utilization for complex data pipelines. must have · not practised here
• Work with Analytics Engineering leads and platform users to define internal APIs, developer toolchains and data modeling practices that speed up developers company-wide. must have
• Go Advanced proficiency in a systems-oriented language such as Go, Java, Scala, Rust or C++. must have · not practised here
• Airflow / orchestration As a Senior Software Engineer you will shape the architecture of our low-level infrastructure, orchestration frameworks and storage engines.
• Cost & performance - Design and optimize high-throughput streaming and storage architectures using Apache Kafka and distributed database internals for mission-critical financial workloads.
• Set standards for resilience testing, automated failover, observability and architectural documentation.
• AWS - Familiarity with multi-region AWS networking, security, IAM and compute. not practised here
• Governance & security Your data is processed by Nubank in line with the GDPR. not practised here
• Java - Advanced proficiency in a systems-oriented language such as Go, Java, Scala, Rust or C++. not practised here
• Scala - Advanced proficiency in a systems-oriented language such as Go, Java, Scala, Rust or C++. not practised here