Data Engineering Tech Manager - Data Platform

About Us

Nubank was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. For more information, visit our institutional page.

Data Engineering at Nubank

We strive for state-of-the-art data engineering practices and that currently includes a variety of technologies. Our Data Engineering organization provides horizontal and democratic platforms to support multiple business units across Nubank. Our challenges are creating, maintaining and evolving technology solutions to support analytical data processing needs growing by 4x year-on- year, sharing best practices and creating tools to improve data integrity and consistency.

• A multi-cloud data platform that is built under the funcional engineering paradigm
• In order to have a very democratic data environment, we use platforms like Databricks, BigQuery, and Looker to provide a complete data experience for a big and very broad audience with many levels of data-literacy. Currently, more than a thousand Nubankers use our platform on a weekly basis
• 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 avoid coupling and centralizing where realistic. We understand that execution is the key to success and optimize processes to remove bottlenecks. While we value candidates who are familiar with them, we are also confident that data engineers interested in joining Nubank will learn from our team.

You can read more about it in our engineering blog and get some insights into how we work.

As a Tech Manager in Data Platform, you'll be expected to

• Build or scale up a data platform team focused on data ingestion
• Foster a culture of teamwork, feedback and continuous improvement
• Conduct effective 1:1s, team meetings and rituals
• Manage individuals, 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 data and software architecture design decisions
• Look and implement improvements in the way we work and organize

Once here, you will

• Contribute to the ongoing data platform evolution at Nubank
• Coach and mentor a team of data engineers, supporting their growth and performance inside the teams they are part of
• Facilitate continuous improvement of team’s processes
• Ensure the team follows good development processes, is aligned internally and with stakeholders
• Ensure the team maintains a high level of operational excellence
• Actively drive and improve recruitment of new talent
• Foster psychological safety and facilitate conflict resolution and performance issues

Data Engineering Tech Manager will help define the strategy, architecture design and provide leadership to data platformization teams. You will have a meaningful chance to shape the team, process, and culture while working with leading-edge technologies.

We are looking for a professional who has

• Solid experience leading Data Engineering teams, ideally focused on data platform, data infrastructure or data engineering
• Exposure to large-scale and distributed data environments and with highly available systems
• Experience with either micro-batch streaming or real-time streaming
• 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 Data Engineers and to translate complex, technical projects and concepts for non-engineers
• Advanced English, you will be part of a global team distributed in Germany and Brazil

Our benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Food Card
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Transportation assistance
• Health, dental and life insurance
• Onsite Health Center - Medical support for every Nubanker in our office
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Child care and parental assistance program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• Gym partnership

Our Nu Way of Working

The work model for this position is full-remote, but the candidate must be based in Brazil.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.