Engineer (Manager) - M2 - Palo Alto - 2026

Nubank; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Nubank

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance and AD&D

Extended parental leaves

Learning platform (Nucleo)

Language learning (NuLanguage)

Mental health & wellness support (NuC)

Job summary

Nubank in Palo Alto, US is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide multiple engineering teams within a hybrid work model. You will drive performance, mentorship, and architectural direction while delivering large-scale distributed systems in a global, collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, agile practices, and clear communication in English, with a focus on building scalable, reliable software and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams.
• Experience managing people including performance assessments and hiring.
• Experience leading Agile teams and ceremonies.
• Ability to discuss software architecture with engineers and translate complex concepts for non-engineers.
• Advanced English communication in a global team.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more engineering teams (8–10 engineers).
• Foster teamwork, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct effective one-on-ones, team meetings, and rituals.
• Support ICs to be high performers and mentor others.
• Deliver distributed systems at scale.
• Align stakeholders around team vision, goals, and metrics.
• Reason about architecture decisions.

Skills

Lead engineering teams

People management

Agile leadership

Architectural discussions

English proficiency

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. Visit our Institutional Page

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