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Nu is the world’s largest digital banking platform outside of Asia, serving over 127 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. Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. 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.

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About the team

The Global Lending organization is one of the most strategic and fastest-growing areas at Nubank globally.

This role is a critical leadership position within Lending, with a mandate that combines two complementary dimensions. First, it leads the Lending Foundations domain — including core platforms, internationalization enablers, and data tooling that support the evolution of Lending across markets. Second, it acts as a senior engineering leader across the broader Lending organization, helping raise the technical bar and drive engineering excellence across teams.

As the Senior Director of Engineering for Global Lending, you will be an essential part of the Lending leadership team. You will shape the engineering vision and technical strategy for a domain that is central to Nubank’s scale, resilience, and future expansion. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders across Lending, as well as stakeholders across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, while collaborating with platform and market teams to unlock scalable solutions for the business.

About the role

This role demands a strong technical foundation, a hands-on approach to architecture and system design, and the ability to influence at scale.

As a Senior Director of Engineering in Global Lending, you will wear two major hats. On one side, you will lead an important business and platform domain within Lending Foundations, driving execution and technical direction across platforms, internationalization, and data-related capabilities. On the other, you will act as a functional engineering leader across Lending, ensuring a high bar for engineering excellence, influencing senior engineering leaders, and helping the organization make strong technical decisions at scale.

Key responsibilities and Expectations

• Define and execute the engineering vision and strategy for Lending Foundations, ensuring alignment with product, business, and platform priorities.
• Lead a critical domain within Lending spanning platforms, internationalization enablers, and data-related tooling that support scalable growth across markets.
• Act as a functional engineering leader across Lending, driving engineering excellence, technical consistency, and a high performance bar across teams.
• Influence senior engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders on architectural decisions, technical trade-offs, and execution priorities.
• Ensure operational excellence and strong engineering standards across the organization, fostering a culture of resilience, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Drive engineering-wide productivity and cross-domain collaboration initiatives, enabling teams to move faster while maintaining alignment and quality.
• Build a strong engineering culture grounded in autonomy, ownership, and technical excellence, while attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent.
• Partner closely with Product and other business leaders to shape long-term strategy and translate it into robust technical execution.
• Bring an entrepreneurial and forward-looking mindset, with strong curiosity around AI and a willingness to explore new tools and ways of working that increase leverage and impact.

Qualifications

Professional Experience & Education:

• High Education Degree in Information Technology or Engineering Field preferred.
• Significant, proven executive with experience in the Technology industry.
• Experience of +10 years in engineering leadership roles, in which has demonstrated strong technical acumen and a deep understanding of engineering principles and practices.
• Proven experience in overseeing engineering teams, preferably within B2C/credit product companies.
• High level of customer empathy, with the ability to align engineering efforts with customer needs and feedback.
• Early career experience in individual contributor roles as a software developer.

Competences & Attributes:

• Fluency in English is required, Portuguese and Spanish are nice to have.
• Product-centric mindset, with a focus on driving product innovation and delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with proficiency in negotiation and conflict resolution.

Core Leadership Skills

The following executive leadership skills serve as a reference for senior leadership levels at Nubank, setting expectations that grow with increasing complexity, ambiguity, and influence.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN - Drives strategic business alignment at Nubank by analyzing market dynamics, identifying opportunities, and ensuring informed decision-making to influence organizational direction.
• COMMUNICATION - Masters complex communication, mentoring others, fostering open dialogue, and adapting strategies to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• AGILE ADAPTABILITY - Leads with agility, pioneering solutions, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous value delivery.

Role Location

Any of our global office locations.

Reports To

This position reports to Jessica Paul (General Manager of Global Lending).