Senior Staff TPM - Global Authentication & Identity

Nubank; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top Tier Medical Insurance

Top Tier Dental and Vision Insurance

401(k) matching

Generous time off and holidays

Life Insurance and AD&D

Learning platform access (Nucleo)

Language learning program (NuLanguage)

Mental health program (NuCare)

Extended parental leaves

Job summary

Nubank is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to own the global authentication frontier. You will lead the migration to a unified, global login and partner with Principal Engineers to architect and migrate across regional databases.

As an outcome owner, you will drive cross‑functional alignment with Frontend, Growth, and Security, and set cryptographic and data‑security standards while ensuring zero-downtime transitions for a truly global digital bank.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of authentication protocols, distributed database syncing, tokenization, and IAM.
• Experience with cryptography or cryptographic key management is a plus.
• Proven track record of driving cross‑functional initiatives while guiding engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Global Authentication Strategy and drive unified login across regions.
• Coordinate across Frontend, New Markets, Growth, and Security to align tech priorities.
• Draft technical specs and RFCs; evaluate token exchange, storage paradigms, and cryptographic standards.
• Ensure reliability in a complex distributed data link with zero margin for error.

Skills

Identity & Authentication Domain

Ownership & Entrepreneurial Mindset

Executive Communication

Massive System Migrations

Hands-on Technical Leadership

Engineer‑First Background

Job description

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns. Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. Visit our Institutional Page

About The Role

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) at the Senior Staff level to take ownership of our global identity frontier. At Nubank, a TPM is an Outcome Owner—an engineer at heart with the programmatic capability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception to production. You are fully accountable for the architectural alignment, migration strategy, and ultimate success or failure of our core authentication platforms. Your immediate mission is to solve for linking user data across multiple countries segregated in regional databases through a unifying entity and enabling a worldwide login for the app. You will partner with senior engineering talent to architect, execute, and migrate to a unified, global authentication layer that securely links user accounts internationally, establishing the foundation for a truly global digital bank.

Core Responsibilities

• Own the Global Authentication Strategy: Act as the programmatic driver for creating a unified global login system. Formulate and execute migration plans for moving legacy, country-specific databases into a global architecture without service interruption.
• Navigate Complex Dependencies: Coordinate horizontally across Frontend, New Markets, Growth, and Security teams to drive technical alignment and eliminate roadblocks.
• Drive Technical Consensus & Crypto Standards: Partner deeply with Principal Engineers to author and review technical specifications and RFCs. Evaluate token exchange mechanisms, local vs. server storage paradigms, and cryptographic standards.
• Establish High Technical Rigor: Untangle complex distributed systems bottlenecks. Ensure that every step of the global data link maintains bulletproof reliability where there is zero margin for error.

Core Qualifications (What We’re Looking For)

• The "Engineer‑First" Background: A proven foundational background as a Software, Security, or Systems Engineer earlier in your career before transitioning to technical program leadership. Please note: This is not a project coordinator role. We require deep technical expertise in these areas to effectively guide the engineering organization.
• Hands‑on Technical Leadership: A strong track record of driving initiatives through active technical influence. You possess the hands‑on technical leadership and ability to unblock teams using your own technical expertise when complex engineering bottlenecks or design challenges arise.
• Ownership & Entrepreneurial Mindset: A distinct ownership mentality paired with an entrepreneurial, "raise the bar" attitude. You take full accountability for outcomes, challenge the status quo, and constantly push for higher standards of security, engineering excellence, and operational maturity.
• Identity & Authentication Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of authentication protocols, distributed database syncing, tokenization, and identity access management (IAM). Experience with cryptography or cryptographic key management is a significant plus.
• Massive System Migrations: A proven track record of managing large‑scale data migrations across geographically distributed systems and databases.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders and align highly opinionated engineering leaders without formal authority.

Our Benefits

• Top Tier Medical Insurance
• Top Tier Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) matching
• 20 days time off, 14 company holidays, and great culture that emphasizes work life balance.
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Saving Plans - Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Twice a week in the office + quarterly trips to Sao Paulo (Brazil) to build relationships with coworkers.

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.