Nubank
Engineering Director, AI Developer Experience (AIDE)
USA, Palo Alto · Director · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 6 days ago
Code ReviewSite Reliability EngineeringLLMsJiraConfluenceVendor ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringAdaptability
About the role
- This role is responsible for defining and leading the AI Developer Experience pillar within Engineering Enablement, transforming how Nubank's engineers write, review, deploy, and operate software.
- The Director inherits a mandate, a growing team, and a seat at the table with the CTO.
- The pillar already has real momentum: an early production win in the Vector agentic coding platform, an urgent context-infrastructure buildout, and direct executive sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale the AI Developer Experience pillar, with an initial focus on measurably increasing shipped PRs per engineer per week through automation, and improving token efficiency as AI spend scales.
- Build the team from the ground up, converting today's borrowed, part-time contributors into a dedicated, full-time organization; the CTO has personally committed to reallocating direct reports and unlocking headcount.
- stand up fast, structured engagements with third parties to benchmark, accelerate, and in some cases co-build: while defining objective eval criteria so decisions aren't subjective.
Requirements
- Comfort operating in a high-velocity, ambiguous, and high-executive-visibility organization
- ability to align and mobilize teams to take on new challenges and scale impact.
- High accountability and ownership mindset, coupled with the ability to move fast under pressure.
- Comfort with an honest, unsolved problem space: even leading peer companies are far from 100% AI-authored code
- A track record that positions the Director as the natural next-step candidate for the broader Engineering Enablement M6 role.
- Experience with sandboxed agentic execution environments, retrieval-augmented systems, or LLM-based code review tooling (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with token-cost management as AI spend scales (nice-to-have).
- Professional Experience & Education:
- Track record building full-time, dedicated engineering teams out of fragmented, part-time, or borrowed resourcing: including experience in allocating teams, stellar in people leadership to do it without burning teams out.
- Real experience structuring and running third-party vendor partnerships (evaluation, integration, managing lock-in risk) alongside first-party build.
- Hands-on technical credibility in agentic coding systems, context/retrieval infrastructure, or developer-facing AI tooling: able to go deep with ICs, not just manage from a distance.
- this role is about the challenge and the resourcing to attack it, not a pre-solved problem.
- A builder's instinct for evaluation rigor: experience designing evals/benchmarks that replace subjective quality judgments with objective, repeatable measurement.
Nice to have
- Reports to a Senior Director, Engineering Enablement and dotted line to Rahul Ahlawat, Engineering Senior Director & Chief of Staff to the CTO.
- Proven leadership of AI-native developer tooling or platform teams, ideally at a company operating at meaningful engineering scale.
- Hands-on technical credibility in agentic coding systems, context/retrieval infrastructure, or developer-facing
Skills
- the charter, budget conversations, and headcount pipeline already exist.
Compensation
- $10k-$15k
Company info
- adhering to company policy for in-office attendance (2026: 2x/week; 2027 onwards: 3x/week).
- Nu is the world's largest digital banking platform outside of Asia, serving over 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 preparing for its next growth cycle where it will accelerate its internationalization process outside Latin America, and will also enter new verticals beyond financial services in its core markets taking advantage of the significant customer penetration.
Visa & Work Authorization
- The pillar already has real momentum: an early production win in the Vector agentic coding platform, an urgent context-infrastructure buildout, and direct executive sponsorship.
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