Tech Lead Engineer Reliability

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.

Nus impact has been recognized in multiple awards including Time 100 Most Influential Companies Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Worlds Best Banks.

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The U.S. Market team is launching a differentiated financial product in the largest and most demanding financial market in the world. Were iterating quickly on real customer signals while building systems that will eventually serve customers at Nubank scale. That combination early-stage velocity regulatory weight and high reliability expectations requires an engineer whose primary mandate is reliability scale and operational excellence.

This role exists to make sure the systems were building today can be trusted in production tomorrow and to set the bar for what production-ready means on this team. The engineer in this role delivers their mandate by writing production code shaping architecture and engineering the systems themselves not by absorbing operational load.

Define and operate against SLOs. Establish meaningful SLIs and SLOs with product and engineering partners manage error budgets and use them as real inputs to prioritization rather than dashboards no one reads.

• Build the observability layer. Improve metrics logs traces and alerting so issues are detected early attributed precisely and debugged with code-level confidence. Push instrumentation upstream into the services we own.

• Lead incident response. Act as incident commander when needed drive blameless postmortems and turn findings into concrete engineering work that lands. Build the muscle in the team so this isnt centralized in any one person.

• Reduce toil through engineering. Identify repetitive operational work and eliminate it with software automation self-healing behavior better defaults better tooling rather than absorbing it as ongoing overhead.

• Production Hardening. Stress-test designs for partial failure dependency degradation traffic spikes and adversarial inputs. Run capacity and performance work before incidents arise. Ensure resiliency primitives are tuned and working correctly.

• Make change safe and fast. Improve release safety through progressive delivery feature flags canaries rollbacks and tested migrations. Help the squad ship faster and with lower blast radius.

• Improve developer experience especially where it removes operational friction or improves change safety. Where internal tooling or platform gaps slow the team down build or contribute the fix. Prefer leverage over heroics.

• Partner across disciplines. Work closely with product platform security compliance and other engineering teams. Translate reliability and risk tradeoffs into language each audience can act on.

• Raise the engineering bar. Mentor engineers review hard designs and PRs and shape technical standards across the squad. Lead through clarity and judgment not authority.

Track record of owning services in production not just shipping them but being the engineer responsible for how they behave under real load and real failure.

• Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs and using error budgets to influence engineering and product decisions.

• Experience leading incident response and writing postmortems that produced durable improvements.

• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (metrics structured logging distributed tracing) and using it to diagnose nontrivial production issues.

• Deep system design experience: distributed services asynchronous messaging storage tradeoffs API design idempotency consistency backpressure and graceful degradation.

• Significant industry experience building and operating production software systems in a high-ownership engineering environment.

• Comfort operating in modern cloud environments (e.g. AWS/GCP) containerized workloads and CI/CD pipelines and reasoning about their failure modes.

• Demonstrated technical leadership: influencing architecture across teams mentoring strong engineers and making the people around you better.

• Pragmatism. You can hold a high reliability bar while still helping a fast-moving squad ship.

Location for this opportunity (City Country)
São Paulo Brazil.

Our Benefits

• Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank

• 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
  
  Work Model for this Role

  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

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