Nubank
Lead Software Engineer, AI Agents & Orchestration
USA, Palo Alto
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 days ago
PythonFlutterFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSAzureTensorFlowPyTorchData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AIA/B TestingLeadershipProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- At Nubank, AI is not a "bolt on" feature.
- It is existential to our next phase of growth.
- This role isn't about working in an isolated lab
Responsibilities
- Lead the AI Architecture: Define the technical roadmap for AI native applications, ensuring our LLM integrations are scalable, cost effective, and highly reliable.
- Build Agentic Workflows: Design and implement complex agentic systems and RAG patterns that provide hyper-personalized financial experiences.
- Drive Engineering Excellence: Set the "canonical" standards for AI development at Nu, promoting reusable components
- Collaborate Across Surfaces: Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to embed LLM capabilities across mobile, web, and internal operations tools.
- Optimize for Quality: Establish rigorous evaluation (QA) and monitoring practices for AI outputs to ensure safety, accuracy, and human in the loop integrity.
- NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human.
- Design and implement complex agentic systems and RAG patterns that provide hyper-personalized financial experiences.
Requirements
- AI First Mindset: Professional experience implementing LLMs, Generative AI features, or RAG patterns in a production environment.
- Full Stack Thinking: Proficiency in building maintainable codebases and API designs that bridge model inference layers with userfacing surfaces.
- Strategic Acumen: Ability to link technical AI initiatives to core business drivers like operational efficiency and customer acquisition.
- Proficiency in building maintainable codebases and API designs that bridge model inference layers with userfacing surfaces.
- Ability to link technical AI initiatives to core business drivers like operational efficiency and customer acquisition.
- Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Python based AI toolchains.
- Experience with Flutter (Mobile) or cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
- Required
- Technical Leadership: Track record as a lead delivering high impact, large scale software systems.
- Complex Problem Solving: Experience navigating ambiguous projects that require coordination across multiple business units and stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Ecosystem Experience: Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Python based AI toolchains.
- Modern Stack: Experience with Flutter (Mobile) or cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
- Domain Expertise: Background in FinTech or highly regulated industries where "Responsible AI" and data privacy are paramount.
- Global Scale: Experience scaling products across diverse international markets and languages.
Skills
- inference services, evaluation frameworks, and orchestration layers to move from experimentation to global impact at "Nu-speed."
Benefits
- Top Tier Medical Insurance
- Top Tier Dental and Vision Insurance
- 20 days time off, 14 company holidays, and great culture that emphasizes work life balance.
- Life Insurance and AD&D
- Extended maternity and paternity leaves
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- NuLanguage - Our language learning program
- NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
- Saving Plans - Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account
Company info
- Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 127 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
- Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people, we are redefining financial services in Latin America and this is still just the beginning of the purple future we're building.
- You will lead the technical direction for embedding Generative AI and LLMs into the lives of over 130 million customers. This role isn't about working in an isolated lab
- You will lead the technical direction for embedding Generative AI and LLMs into the lives of over 130 million customers.
- At Nubank, AI is not a "bolt on" feature. It is existential to our next phase of growth. We are transforming into an AI native company, where intelligent systems don't just support our products
- We are transforming into an AI native company, where intelligent systems don't just support our products; they define them.
This listing is sourced directly from Nubank's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.