Engineer (Manager) - M2 - Palo Alto - 2026

Nubank; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Nu/Nubank equity

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance and AD&D

Extended maternity and paternity leave

Learning platform (Nucleo)

Language learning (NuLanguage)

Mental health/wellness program (NuCare

401K/HSAs/FSA

Work-from-home allowance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Nubank is seeking a senior engineering leader for Palo Alto with responsibility for leading 8–10 software engineers across distributed systems. You will foster teamwork, conduct regular 1:1s and rituals, and drive performance while aligning stakeholders with the team’s vision and metrics.

You will participate in architecture decisions, translate complex technical projects for non-engineers, and continuously improve ways of working in a global hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Engineering teams.
• Experience being accountable for people management, including performance assessment and career growth.
• Experience leading agile teams with ceremonies, metrics and processes.
• Ability to translate complex technical projects for non-engineers and participate in architecture discussions.
• Advanced level of English - global team involvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more teams 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 for improvements in how we work and organize.

Skills

Lead Engineering teams

People management

Agile leadership

Architectural discussions

Advanced English

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 Nu

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 one or more teams 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

Palo Alto, US

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

• Opportunity of earning equity at Nu
• Medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• 401K Saving Plans - Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Work-from-home Allowance
• 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