Engineering Tech Manager

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Nubank is hiring an Engineering Tech Manager in Toronto for a full-time onsite role, leading an 8–10 person software team, fostering collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement, and delivering distributed systems at scale. You will align stakeholders around a shared vision and metrics, coach engineers, run effective 1:1s and rituals, and steer architecture decisions while removing bottlenecks in a startup-like, process-light environment. Strong prior experience leading engineering teams, people management, agile practices, and the ability to translate technical tradeoffs for non-engineers are essential. Highlight measurable outcomes, hiring and coaching impact, and your comfort with a hybrid model and occasional global in-person sessions.

About Us

Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 122 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.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human.

Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Bank. 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

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves 
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Vacations

Work Model for this Role

Nubank operates in a hybrid model, where teams collaborate remotely and periodically come together for about one week of in-person sessions. For Canadian team members, these sessions typically take place in one of our hubs (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, or the United States) and are communicated well in advance to allow proper planning, with travel support provided to ensure equitable access to these global collaboration opportunities.

Transparency in the use of AI

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.