Engineering Lead: Distributed Systems & Team Growth

Nubank; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Nu

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance and AD&D

Extended maternity and paternity leave

Nucleo learning platform

NuLanguage program

NuCare mental health support

401K and HSA/FSA

Work-from-home Allowance

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Nubank is seeking a senior engineering leader in Palo Alto, CA, to drive high-impact distributed systems and scalable software delivery. You will guide multiple engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape architecture decisions in a fast-moving, hybrid-work environment.

You will collaborate with global teams, participate in architecture discussions, and translate complex technical strategies for non-engineers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Engineering teams or as a software engineer/architect.
• Exposure to performance assessment, hiring, and career growth support is a plus.
• Experience leading agile ceremonies, metrics and processes.

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.
• Deliver distributed systems at scale.
• Align stakeholders around team’s vision, goals, and metrics.
• Reason about architecture design decisions.
• Look for improvements in team workflows and organization.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture decisions

Agile teams

English proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Datomic

DynamoDB

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Finagle

Job description

Nubank is seeking a senior engineering leader in Palo Alto, CA, to drive high-impact distributed systems and scalable software delivery. You will guide multiple engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape architecture decisions in a fast-moving, hybrid-work environment.

You will collaborate with global teams, participate in architecture discussions, and translate complex technical strategies for non-engineers.