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How Nubank hires

Truth index
A 100/100
Median time to fill
37 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Nubank scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 37 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Nubank is a Brazilian digital bank founded in 2013 that began by issuing a no-fee purple credit card to customers frustrated by the branch banking oligopoly, and it has grown into one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America by customer count. It now serves well over a hundred million customers across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia with accounts, cards, lending, investments and insurance, operating entirely without branches. Headquartered in São Paulo and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it was an early Berkshire Hathaway investment and is unusual among digital banks for being consistently profitable at scale.

News

News Tearsheet 24 days ago
Nubank intends to paint the U.S. banking system purple
Nubank just launched in the U.S. with 3.50% savings, a no-fee credit card, and free international transfers, its bid to crack the toughest banking market.
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News The Rio Times 25 days ago
Revolut Colombia Plans 1,000 ATMs and a 2027 Public Opening to Rival Nubank
Revolut Colombia plans 1,000 ATMs over five years and a gradual public opening in early 2027, its chief said, as it squares up to Nubank.
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News noteノート 27 days ago
Nubank's US Expansion and New Strategy for Global Growthたかひろ
IntroductionThis article is a full translation of a conversation between David Vélez, founder of digital bank Nubank, and co-founder Cristina Junqueira regarding their expansion into the US market and the launch of their new service, "Nu Global."With 140
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News Crypto Briefing 1 month ago
Nubank accelerates US market entry with Lead Bank partnership
Nubank launches US banking operations through Lead Bank partnership, offering 3.50% APY savings, fee-free remittances, crypto trading, and a
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News TNW Investors-funding 2 months ago
Ex-Nubank team raises $85m for AI adviser Decade
Two former Nubank leaders raised $85m, Latin America's largest seed round, for Decade, an AI wealth adviser promising "a new generation of millionaires."
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News Financial IT 3 months ago
Nubank Launches Nubank Croma with a Platinum Card, Cashback, and Exclusive Perks
Nubank introduces its new segment, Nubank Croma, featuring an exclusive selection of benefits. With it, customers gain access to the Mastercard Platinum card with 0.8% cashback or 1 point for every 1.4 dollars spent on all credit purchases. The cashback o
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News Forbes 3 months ago
U.S. Banking Is A Fortress. Nubank's Billionaire CEO Has An Invasion Plan.
Some analysts warn that the U.S. market is too competitive. But David Vélez has built a $13 billion fortune proving the naysayers wrong.
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News Building Nubank 9 months ago
Designing real systems with immutable data in Clojure
Lessons from modeling state, change, and complexity with values and functions
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News Building Nubank 9 months ago
Designing real systems with immutable data in Clojure
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Nubank over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
167
Postings analysed
128
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python38%
SQL27%
Scala26%
Clojure23%
Frameworks & libraries
Finagle9%
Commander.js4%
PyTorch3%
TensorFlow3%
Databases
Datomic15%
DynamoDB13%
Google BigQuery2%
BigQuery2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS34%
Kubernetes18%
Apache Kafka15%
GCP9%
AI & ML
LLM14%
Claude5%
ChatGPT1%
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Full Nubank tech stack 167 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$147k
Typical range
$120k – $345k
Open positions
11
10 Jobs
Junior 10%
Senior 50%
Staff 30%
Principal 10%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $120k $120k
Senior 5 $131k $124k – $174k
Staff 3 $345k $147k – $345k
Principal 1 $312k $312k
Highest paying role Staff Machine Learning Engineer $345k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Nubank By role, level and city, against the market · 11 jobs with pay

Products

International Operations
Banking businesses in Mexico and Colombia built on the same platform as the Brazilian bank. Mexico is where the bank is now investing most heavily, against incumbents whose branch networks and pricing resemble Brazil a decade ago.
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NuInvest
Investment products and brokerage for retail customers of the bank. It extends the relationship beyond payments into savings, where the incumbent Brazilian banks have historically charged retail investors very heavily indeed.
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Lending
Personal loans, payroll-deducted credit and card instalments underwritten on the bank's own behavioural data. Underwriting customers the incumbents rejected is the core of the business model and its principal risk.
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NuConta
The digital current account offering payments, transfers and interest on balances. Brazil's instant payment system Pix removed the last practical reason to keep an account at a branch bank, which accelerated adoption sharply.
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Credit Card
The no-fee card that the bank was founded on and that still acquires most of its customers. Its purple card became a status object among younger Brazilians, which is a marketing outcome no incumbent bank managed to replicate.
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People

David Velez
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
David Velez co-founded the company in 2013 after a frustrating experience opening a Brazilian bank account. He had previously been an investor at Sequoia Capital covering Latin America.
Cristina Junqueira
Co-founder
Cristina Junqueira co-founded the company after running credit card products at Itau Unibanco. She designed the original card proposition and led the growth organisation.
Edward Wible
Co-founder
Edward Wible co-founded the company as its first chief technology officer and built the original banking platform. He chose to build the core systems in house rather than licence them.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
81/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
83
27 opened / 65 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
38 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
28% ▼
Finance
14%
Analytics
9% ▲
Design
6% ▼
AI/ML
5% ▼
Security
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added DNS to stack Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Oct 2026
Added arXiv to stack Oct 2026
Added Rollup to stack Oct 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added Anomaly Detection to stack Sep 2026
Added KEDA to stack Sep 2026
Added Karpenter to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added Redis to stack Sep 2026
Added XGBoost to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
11
Countries
6
Busiest office
São Paulo
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São Paulo Brazil
HQ
Nubank Empresas
29 open roles 78 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Backend, Security, Operations
Rua Capote Valente, 39 - São Paulo, SP - 05409-000
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings
Palo Alto United States
Regional office
27 open roles 42 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 200-500 est. staff $251k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Design
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Miami United States
Regional office
19 open roles 34 posted in 90 days 26% engineering 200-500 est. staff $137k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Operations, Product
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Mexico City Mexico
Regional office
14 open roles 30 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Finance, Backend, DevOps
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Engineering / R&D
10 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 90% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Security, Web3
seen since Jul 2026
Campinas Brazil
Engineering / R&D
10 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 90% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Security, Web3
seen since Jul 2026
Belo Horizonte Brazil
Engineering / R&D
9 open roles 25 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Security, Web3
seen since Jul 2026
Bogotá Colombia
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 86% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Analytics, Backend, Security
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Toronto Canada
Engineering / R&D
5 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $139k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Buenos Aires Argentina
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Durham United States
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Design
seen since Jul 2026

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