Engineering Manager - Mexico ( Hybrid)

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.

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Engineering at Nubank

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 a team 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

Mexico City, Mexico.

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

Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Mexico, they include:

Chance of earning equity at Nu

Extended maternity and paternity leaves

Health and life insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program

Nucleo – our learning platform of courses

NuLanguage – our language learning program

Holiday Bonus (“Aguinaldo”) of 30 days of pay per year

17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus

Gym partnership

Food card

Work-from-home Allowance

Parental Consultancy

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