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.
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The Mobile Platform’s mission aligns with Nubank’s commitment to delivering the best experience for our customers by ensuring a high-performing, stable, and seamless app.
Within Mobile Platform, focuses on providing user-friendly, scalable, high-performing, and cost-efficient app infrastructure components and mobile tools that enable Nubank engineers to quickly and safely test, deploy, monitor, analyze, and improve app flows and features.
Global Experience Design is one of Nubank’s building blocks, bringing together UX, design, and customer experience. The team works on evolving the app experience and the design system, connecting Mobile Platform, App Excellence, Design Systems, and App Core to create simple, consistent, and scalable experiences. We are at the heart of the Nubank app’s foundation, driving performance, infrastructure scalability, and the removal of legacy dependencies to allow our application to grow from millions to potentially billions of passionate customers.
This role will involve working across a variety of technologies, including Native, Flutter, and related frameworks. We are looking for a Staff Mobile Engineer with solid experience to join the Mobile Platform team — a cross-impact engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure of the mobile application, optimizing our performance, and enabling product teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences.
Must Have:
Proven and solid experience in technical development of mobile applications at a strategic leadership level.
Strong technical background with Flutter and/or native mobile development (Android/iOS).
Solid understanding of mobile software engineering principles, architectural patterns, and modularization strategies.
Experience with Server Driven - UI, performance optimization, dependency injection, and migration of core systems.
Knowledge of mobile observability, monitoring, and debugging tools.
Strong communication skills in English, with the ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
Track record of delivering results in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Nice to Have:
Experience with backend technologies, especially those integrated with mobile applications.
Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale app architecture.
Contributions to internal SDKs, libraries, or mobile design systems.
Understanding of user authentication, session management, and app state handling.
Leadership in global teams.
Impact at Scale: Help shape the mobile experience for millions of customers across multiple countries, with the goal of reaching billions.
Technical Leadership: Influence the architecture and foundational technologies that all Nubank engineers rely on.
Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a dynamic, collaborative environment that values experimentation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
Career Growth: Develop as a strategic engineering, working on complex technical and organizational challenges.
Chance of earning equity at Nubank
Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Medical Plan
Dental Plan
NuLanguage – Language Course Program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
Extended Parental Leave
Daycare Allowance
Parental Consultancy
Work-from-home Allowance
Gym Partnerships
30 days of paid vacation
Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
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 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.
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The Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Platform position at Nubank is based in São Paulo. This is a hybrid position.
The Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Platform position at Nubank is a Full time role.
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