Principal Software Engineer - Credit Card

Nubank is a leading fintech company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive architectural consistency and technical excellence for their Global Credit Card division. This high-influence leadership role focuses on aligning technical strategy with business goals to maximize the impact of platform investments across core platforms and product areas.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Cross-Platform Impact: Identify opportunities for globally optimal outcomes across the division’s core platforms and consumer products
• Architectural Pattern Leadership: Monitor diverse projects to find commonalities; build and disseminate architectural patterns that elevate the entire organization
• Strategic Mission Strategizing: Maintain the flexibility to jump into urgent, high-stakes technical investigations or strategic missions as needed
• Business Stakeholder Partnership: Work independently with General Managers to align technical roadmaps with commercial goals
• Technical Mentorship & Culture: Act as a peer to engineering leadership, raising the bar and mentoring staff engineers on cross-functional thinking
• Horizontal Execution: Unlike a "narrow and deep" expert, you will maintain a wide orientation to ensure end-to-end technical health across the division

Requirements:

• Experience in driving architectural consistency and technical excellence in a large-scale environment
• Ability to operate across core platforms and product areas
• Experience in aligning technical strategy with business objectives
• Strong leadership skills to influence and mentor engineering teams
• Ability to identify and disseminate architectural patterns across the organization
• Experience in working independently with business stakeholders, particularly General Managers
• Strong technical background to translate complex technical trade-offs into business-centric outcomes
• Experience in managing cross-platform impact and identifying opportunities for globally optimal outcomes
• Ability to maintain flexibility in urgent, high-stakes technical investigations
• Experience in reducing redundant work and improving global efficiency
• Ability to influence platform adoption and engineering stability