Engineering Manager - Mexico ( Hybrid)
- Level
- Lead
- Work type
- On-site · Ciudad de México
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 30 October 2026.
About the role
Nubank's standard text
About Nu
Nu 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.
Proprietary 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.
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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.
You’ll be Responsible for
- 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
We're Looking For Someone 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
Location
Mexico City, Mexico.
Work model
Hybrid
Office requirement
Hybrid 2–3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/.
Our Benefits
Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Mexico, they include:
- Chance of earning equity at Nu
- Extended maternity and paternity leaves
- Health and life insurance
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program
- Nucleo – our learning platform of courses
- NuLanguage – our language learning program
- Holiday Bonus (“Aguinaldo”) of 30 days of pay per year
- 17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus
- Gym partnership
- Food card
- Work-from-home Allowance
- Parental Consultancy
- Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
Nubank's standard text
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.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
DynamoDB · Kafka · Prometheus
Rare in Nubank's other 71 open postings.
78% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Nubank's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Nubank's other open jobs.
The team: Engineer HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 40 open in Engineer. 16 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (19 of 40), Microservices (15 of 40), Kubernetes (13 of 40), Kafka (11 of 40), CI/CD (10 of 40), Prometheus (9 of 40), DynamoDB (8 of 40)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management posted Nov 3
- Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management posted Nov 3
- Senior Systems Engineer - Traffic Management posted Nov 3
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Money Boxes posted Oct 30
- Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Network) posted Oct 29
- Tech Lead - Global Offices Network posted Oct 29
- Senior Security Engineer (Incident Response) posted Oct 28
- Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform (m/w/d) posted Oct 27
- Senior Security Engineer - GRC (PCI) posted Oct 22
- Lead Security Engineer - GRC posted Oct 22
- Global Software Asset Management Lead posted Oct 22
- Staff Security Engineer (IAM) posted Oct 21
- Staff Software Engineer (Marketing Platforms) posted Oct 19
- Staff Software Engineer - BI Intelligence posted Oct 16
- Senior Systems Engineer (Kafka) posted Oct 7
- Senior Staff TPM - Core Infrastructure & Platform Evolution posted Oct 1
- Lead Security Engineer - Vulnerability Management posted Sep 30
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Remittance posted Sep 24
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience posted Sep 18
- Lead Software Engineer (Crypto, SV) - US - IC6 - 2026 posted Sep 17
- Lead Software Engineer - BR posted Sep 10
- Lead Data Center Engineer - Global Office IT Physical Infra posted Sep 3
- Lead Software Engineer - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid) posted Aug 31
- Staff Software Engineer - Lending Foundations (Policy & Data Platform) posted Aug 27
- Staff Mobile Software Engineer (AI Private Banker, SV) - US - IC7 - 2026 posted Aug 26
- Staff Software Engineer (Crypto, SV) - US - IC7 - 2026 posted Aug 22
- Senior Staff Software Engineer (Crypto, SV) - IC8+ - US - 2026 posted Aug 22
- Lead Mobile Engineer posted Aug 22
- Staff Software Engineer - Insurance posted Aug 11
- Staff Software Engineer, Product Workflow Reinvention posted Aug 4
- Senior Software Engineer - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid) posted Jul 28
- Tech Lead Software Engineer posted Jul 20
- Staff Software Engineer - Mexico posted Jul 20
- Staff Security Engineer (IAM) posted Jul 20
- Senior Software Engineer posted Jul 19
- Senior Software Engineer – Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid) posted Jul 19
- Senior Software Engineer - BR posted Jul 19
- Lead Software Engineer - Mexico City posted Jul 19
- Senior Software Engineer – Bogotá, Colombia (Hybrid) posted Jul 19
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