Engineering Manager - Mexico ( Hybrid)

Nubank; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Extended maternity and paternity leave

Health and life insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

NuCare – mental health program

Nucleo – learning platform

NuLanguage – language learning

Aguinaldo – 30 days bonus

Vacation 17 days + 25% bonus

Gym partnership

Food card

Work-from-home Allowance

Parental Consultancy

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Nubank in Mexico City is seeking an Engineering Leader to guide a team of 8–10 software engineers, fostering teamwork and continuous improvement while delivering distributed systems at scale.

You will participate in architecture discussions, translate complex technical concepts for non-engineers, and align stakeholders around the team's vision, goals, and metrics. Strong English and experience leading agile teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Engineering teams
• Accountable for people management including performance assessment and career growth
• Experience leading agile teams and ceremonies, metrics, processes
• Advanced level of English to work with global team

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 8–10 software engineers (ICs)
• Foster a culture of teamwork, feedback and continuous improvement
• Conduct effective 1:1s, team meetings and rituals
• Manage individual contributors, enabling high performance
• Deliver distributed systems at scale
• Align stakeholders around team’s vision, goals, and metrics
• Reason about software architecture design decisions
• Look and implement improvements in the way we work and organize

Skills

Team leadership

Agile leadership

Communication

English proficiency

Tools

Clojure

Kafka

AWS

Datomic

DynamoDB

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Job description

About Nu

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. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.

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Engineering at Nubank

We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, that currently includes a variety of technologies. While we value candidates that are familiar with them, we are also confident that software engineers who are interested in joining Nubank will be able to learn from our team.

• Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging upon functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture

• High throughput jobs and inter-service communication using Kafka

• Continuous Integration and Deployment into AWS

• Storing data in Datomic and DynamoDB

• Monitoring and observability with Prometheus

• Running as much as possible in Kubernetes

We are a process-light organization that values human interactions. We value working in small, independent teams that feel like small startups within the company, and eschew coupling and centralizing where realistic. We understand that execution is the key to success and optimize processes to remove bottlenecks.

You can read more about it in our engineering blog and get some insights into how we work.

You’ll be Responsible for

• Lead a team of 8~10 software engineers (ICs)

• Foster a culture of teamwork, feedback and continuous improvement

• Conduct effective 1:1s, team meetings and rituals

• Manage individual contributors, enabling them to be high performers and support others

• Deliver distributed systems at scale

• Align stakeholders around team’s vision, goals, and metrics

• Reason about software architecture design decisions

• Look and implement improvements in the way we work and organize

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Experience leading Engineering teams, ideally with a background as a software engineer or software architect

• Experience being accountable for people management, having exposure to performance assessment, hiring, supporting career growth, etc

• Experience leading agile teams, being familiar with the most relevant ceremonies, metrics and processes

• A good level of technical understanding, being able to take part in architecture discussions with Engineers and to translate complex, technical projects and concepts for non-engineers.

• Advanced level of English - you'll be part of a global team

Location

Mexico City, Mexico.

Work model

Hybrid

Office requirement

Hybrid 2–3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/.

Our Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Mexico, they include:

• Chance of earning equity at Nu

• Extended maternity and paternity leaves

• Health and life insurance

• Dental and Vision Insurance

• NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program

• Nucleo – our learning platform of courses

• NuLanguage – our language learning program

• Holiday Bonus (“Aguinaldo”) of 30 days of pay per year

• 17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus

• Gym partnership

• Food card

• Work-from-home Allowance

• Parental Consultancy

• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.

To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here