{"id":1198382,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nubank-senior-staff-software-engineer-remittance","title":"Senior Staff Software Engineer - Remittance","company":{"id":13935,"name":"Nubank","domain":"nubank.com.br","url":"https://alion.io/company/nu-bank","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":39,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Palo Alto, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":194000,"max_usd":363000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":970},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T17:19:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T01:37:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About Nu\nNu 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.\nProprietary 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.\nVisit ourInstitutional Page\nAbout the role\nAs Nubank scales its footprint globally, seamless international money movement is a cornerstone of our growth. We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the overarching architecture for Nubank’s global Remittance and Cross-Border Payment Platforms. In this role, you will sit at the strategic intersection of high-scale distributed backend systems, foreign exchange (FX) engines, international payment rails, and global compliance platforms. You won't just maintain existing pipelines, you will architect the foundation that enables instant, low-cost, multi-currency money movement for millions of users across borders.Your mission: maintain and grow a resilient, multi-country remittance engine that abstracts away complex global payment rails and regulatory requirements into simple, reliable platform capabilities.\nWhat You Will Own & Build\nCore Remittance Platform Architecture: Design and evolve the long-term technical vision for multi-currency money movement, FX rate locking, payout routing, and ledgering across international corridors.\n\nGlobal Rail Integration Strategy: Architect plug-and-play integrations with global payout partners, banking networks, and local clearing rails (e.g., PIX, SPEI, FedNow, SWIFT) with ultra-high reliability and low latencies.\n\nResilient Ledgering & FX Management: Build transaction execution engines that guarantee exact-once delivery, deterministic ledger balancing, real-time liquidity management, and auditability under massive concurrency.\n\nCompliance & Risk System Abstractions: Partner with AML, KYC, Sanctions Screening, and Regulatory Engineering teams to embed real-time screening seamlessly into payment paths without degrading user experience or throughput.\n\nTechnical RFC Leadership: Drive cross-organizational consensus on high-impact architectural decisions through detailed RFCs, design reviews, and technical documentation.\n\nEngineering Mentorship: Multiply organizational velocity by mentoring senior engineers across payments squads in distributed systems principles, resilience engineering, and payment domain knowledge.\n\nWhat We Are Looking For\nTenure in Backend Software Engineering: Proven track record of designing, operating, and scaling highly available, mission-critical backend distributed platforms in demanding environments (e.g., fintech, payments, banking, or cloud platform infrastructure).\n\nDeep Payments Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience building remittance systems, cross-border payments, multi-currency ledger engines, FX execution services, or integrations with international payment clearing systems.\n\nDistributed Systems Mastery: High fluency with event-driven architectures, transactional consistency, distributed sagas/orchestration, double-entry accounting engines, and high-concurrency microservices.\n\nPlatform Mindset: Experience designing clean, developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and platform boundaries that enable product teams to quickly launch consumer-facing remittance journeys.\n\nCross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to act as a horizontal technical leader, writing comprehensive design documents (RFCs), guiding executive leadership on technical trade-offs, and building consensus across geographically distributed teams.\n\nLanguage & Location: Fluent English is required for international engineering collaboration. Portuguese or Spanish is a plus. Roles are open in Brazil (hybrid model) or key US hubs.\n\nWhy Join Us?\nYou will join a world-class engineering organization that values technical depth, architectural clarity, and high execution speed. You will own the technology powering one of the most strategic growth vectors at Nubank, building cross-border payment infrastructure that unlocks financial freedom for tens of millions of people.\nWork Setup\nWork model\n[Hybrid / On-Site]\nOffice requirement\n2 days per week at the office.\nOur Benefits\nChance of earning equity at Nubank \n\nNuCare - Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program\n\nLife Insurance\n\nMedical Plan\n\nNuLanguage - Language Course Program\n\nNucleo - Our learning platform of courses\n\nExtended Parental Leave\n\nRelocation Assistance Package, if applicable\n\nOur 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.\nTo maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. 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