Staff Software Engineer, AI & Global Credit Card Platform

Nubank; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunity

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance and AD&D

Extended parental leaves

Nucleo learning platform

NuLanguage learning program

NuCare wellness program

401(k)

HSA/FSA

Work-from-home Allowance

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Nubank’s Nu unit seeks a Staff Software Engineer, AI & Credit Card Platform, to lead cross-functional teams and shape how credit card products adapt to new markets. You will build reusable country-launch capabilities, drive AI transformation and guide architecture across multiple squads.

Based in a role that blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, you will partner with Product, Legal, Compliance and platform teams to scale international launches while operating in a fast-paced fintech

Qualifications

• Software engineering experience with staff-level scope across multiple teams and domains.
• Track record of designing and shipping reusable platform solutions adopted by other teams.
• Current hands-on experience with agentic AI, including coding agents, tools, skills, context engineering or RAG.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems depth, sufficient to hold architectural authority across multiple products and platforms.
• Ability to operate under deep ambiguity, structure undefined problems and make progress even when future market requirements are not yet confirmed.
• Quantitative rigor: ability to define baselines, design experiments, measure outcomes and stop initiatives that do not create value.
• Strong technical leadership and influence without authority across Engineering, Product, Business, Legal and Compliance stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English, including technical documents, plans and playbooks read by teams across countries.
• Willingness to work hands-on and adapt quickly to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture across multiple squads and domains.
• Build reusable country-launch capabilities for new markets.
• Drive AI transformation across the CC Factory and engineering lifecycle.
• Develop domain-grounded AI systems for credit card config and launches.
• Define AI risk and governance with human-in-the-loop controls and audits.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance and platform teams on technical direction and priorities.
• Stay hands-on: prototype, code and contribute when needed.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Backend & distributed systems

Agentic AI / RAG

Architectural leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication

Tools

Clojure

Functional programming

Microservices

Config-driven architecture

Job description

Nubank’s Nu unit seeks a Staff Software Engineer, AI & Credit Card Platform, to lead cross-functional teams and shape how credit card products adapt to new markets. You will build reusable country-launch capabilities, drive AI transformation and guide architecture across multiple squads.

Based in a role that blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, you will partner with Product, Legal, Compliance and platform teams to scale international launches while operating in a fast-paced fintech