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NNubank
Nubank•FinTech

Senior Software Engineer

Data Platform

Location

Berlin, Germany

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full Time

Experience

8-12 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

58m ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on designing and building core low-level services and distributed runtimes for Nubank’s global data platform. The position involves shaping architecture, leading technical design, resolving systemic bottlenecks, and mentoring engineers across various squads. It is primarily a systems engineering role with a component of data architecture.

You will join an engineering squad in our Berlin office working on distributed systems and platform infrastructure. Our products serve analytics engineers and business teams across the company, but this is primarily a systems engineering role (roughly 75% core software systems engineering, 25% data architecture).

As a Senior Software Engineer you will shape the architecture of our low-level infrastructure, orchestration frameworks and storage engines. You will lead technical design, resolve systemic bottlenecks in compute and streaming layers, and mentor engineers across squads, working with colleagues in Berlin, the US and Latin America.

What you will do

  • Design and build core low-level services and distributed runtimes for Nubank’s global data platform, with high fault tolerance, elastic scale and sub-second event availability.

  • Lead the design of compute orchestration frameworks on large Kubernetes clusters, improving scheduling throughput and resource utilization for complex data pipelines.

  • Design and optimize high-throughput streaming and storage architectures using Apache Kafka and distributed database internals for mission-critical financial workloads.

  • Find and remove performance, network and storage bottlenecks across the infrastructure stack to reduce latency.

  • Work with Analytics Engineering leads and platform users to define internal APIs, developer toolchains and data modeling practices that speed up developers company-wide.

  • Set standards for resilience testing, automated failover, observability and architectural documentation.

What you bring

  • Substantial experience designing, scaling and operating mission-critical distributed systems and backend architectures in high-throughput production environments.

  • Strong practical knowledge of container orchestration and systems management at scale, ideally Kubernetes internals and custom controllers or operators.

  • Advanced proficiency in a systems-oriented language such as Go, Java, Scala, Rust or C++.

  • Experience with database system architecture (storage engines, indexing, replication) and/or event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka.

  • A track record of technical leadership: writing design proposals, aligning teams on complex technical decisions, and mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

  • Experience building internal developer platforms, custom compute engines or low-level database products.

  • Experience with data platforms or compute runtimes that support production AI/ML training and inference.

  • Familiarity with multi-region AWS networking, security, IAM and compute.

  • Involvement in open-source distributed systems projects (e.g. Kubernetes, Kafka, data orchestration).

Updated 58m ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Distributed Systems • 1+ yrs
Backend Architecture • 1+ yrs
Container Orchestration • 1+ yrs
Kubernetes • 1+ yrs
Go • 1+ yrs
Apache Kafka • 1+ yrs
Database System Architecture • 1+ yrs
Technical Leadership • 1+ yrs

Experience

8-12 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Engineering

Industries

Finance & Banking

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Stock Options / ESOP
Life Insurance
Relocation Assistance

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationBerlin, Germany
Work typeHybrid
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleHigh • 8/10
physicalLow • 2/10
cognitiveHigh • 9/10
executionHigh • 8/10
creativityHigh • 8/10
uncertaintyMedium • 7/10
communicationHigh • 8/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Nubank

Team size

Growing team

Location

Berlin, Germany

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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Senior Software Engineer

Berlin, Germany • Full Time