Tech Manager

1 Year ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

Nubank is seeking a Tech Manager to lead a team of 8-10 software engineers. Responsibilities include fostering teamwork, conducting 1:1s and team meetings, managing individual contributors, delivering distributed systems at scale, aligning stakeholders, and driving architectural design decisions. The role involves coaching and mentoring engineers, facilitating process improvements, ensuring quality software delivery, maintaining operational excellence, improving recruitment processes, and fostering psychological safety. The ideal candidate has experience leading engineering teams, managing people, and working with agile methodologies. Strong technical understanding and advanced English proficiency are required.
Must have:
  • Experience leading engineering teams
  • Experience in people management
  • Experience leading agile teams
  • Good technical understanding
  • Advanced level of English
Good to have:
  • Background as a software engineer or architect
  • Familiarity with performance assessment, hiring, and career growth support
  • Familiarity with agile ceremonies, metrics, and processes
  • Ability to translate technical concepts for non-engineers
Perks:
  • Chance of earning equity
  • Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
  • Life Insurance
  • Medical Plan
  • Dental Plan
  • Meal Voucher
  • Language Course Program
  • Learning platform access
  • Extended Parental Leave
  • Daycare Allowance
  • Parental Consultancy
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Gym Partnership

Job Details

About Us

Nu 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 https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/

 

Engineering at Nubank

We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, that currently includes a variety of technologies. While we value candidates that are familiar with them, we are also confident that software engineers who are interested in joining Nubank will be able to learn from our team.

  • 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 eschew coupling and centralizing where realistic. We understand that execution is the key to success and optimize processes to remove bottlenecks.

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

 

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

  • Lead a team of 8~10 software engineers (ICs)
  • Foster a culture of teamwork, feedback and continuous improvement
  • Conduct effective 1:1s, team meetings and rituals
  • Manage individual contributors, 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 software architecture design decisions
  • Look and implement improvements in the way we work and organize

 

Once here, you will

  • Coach and mentor software 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, and consistently delivers quality software
  • Ensure the team maintains a high level of operational excellence
  • Actively drive and improve recruitment
  • Foster psychological safety and facilitate conflict resolution and performance issues

 

We are looking for a professional who has

  • Experience leading Engineering teams, ideally with a background as a software engineer or software architect 
  • 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 Engineers and to translate complex, technical projects and concepts for non-engineers.
  • Advanced level of English - you'll be part of a global team :)

 

Our Benefits

  • Chance of earning equity at Nubank
  • NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
  • Life Insurance
  • Medical Plan
  • Dental Plan
  • Meal Voucher 
  • NuLanguage – Language Course Program
  • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
  • Extended Parental Leave
  • Daycare Allowance
  • Parental Consultancy
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Gym Partnership

 

Our Nu Way of Working 

Our work model is hybrid and has cycles that can be from two to three months according to the business of ​​expertise. For every eight or twelve weeks of remote work, one will be at the office. Check more information here.

 

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.

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About The Company

Nubank was born in 2013 with the mission to fight against the complexity of the financial market to help our customers regain control of their financial lives. We have spent 11 years dedicated to bringing very simple ideas to places no one has ever taken them. For us, past success does not guarantee the future, which is why every day is “Day 1.” Being part of Nubank is embarking on a long-term journey where we know each challenge sparks creativity and innovation, where obstacles become opportunities to go a little further. Recently, we reached the milestone of 100 million customers globally, a significant achievement in our journey, but we know it wasn’t just the customers who chose us. We have over 8,000 Nubankers who choose to work with us daily.

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