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Lead Security Software Engineer (AppSec)

AT Nubank
Nubank

Lead Security Software Engineer (AppSec)

São Paulo, Brazil



About Us


Nubank was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. For more information, visit our institutional page.



We believe in



  • Strong and diverse teams;

  • Enthusiasm for building and delivering new features and products;

  • Capacity to keep learning new things while constantly improving what we are already good at;

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  • Collaborating efficiently to ship quality service/products.



  • Our Security Team


    Technology is not a sector of our business: it's intrinsic to every area at Nubank. We encourage everyone to challenge the status quo. There's no "innovation team" - we hire innovative people for all our positions and encourage them to constantly question decisions to keep finding better ways to do something. Our business is growing, and our engineering team must match that demand.


    As we grow, we need to:



    • Find new techniques and technologies, multiplying efficiency through tools and libraries;

    • Balance new processes while staying agile;

    • Learn quickly and easily adapt to changing situations and priorities;

    • Sustainable scale diverse teams.



    As a Security Engineer, you're expected to:



    • Participate in designing and developing new technologies and security products that will support security requirements for the enterprise and its customers, business partners, and vendors;

    • Work closely with other teams to develop and promote security architectures to protect Nubank's internal systems;

    • Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture;

    • Plan and execute on entire features, collaborating with peers while planning the work ahead, and seeing it through;

    • Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code;

    • Pair, and participate in code reviews, to grow and contribute to the growth of others in and around the team.




    What are we looking for?




    • Previous experience in Software Engineering roles;

    • Experience working in two or more of the following security-related areas: Web application security; Authentication and access control Development of security tools, automation or frameworks;

    • Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements, translating them into technical design and implementation;

    • Proven understanding of object-oriented or functional programming language;

    • A problem-solver who is able to communicate effectively across functional teams;

    • Notions of distributed systems.



    Our Benefits



    • Chance of earning equity at Nubank

    • Food Card

    • 30 days of paid vacation

    • Transportation assistance

    • Health, dental and life insurance

    • Onsite Health Center - Medical support for every Nubanker in our office

    • NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program

    • Extended maternity and paternity leaves

    • Child care and parental assistance program

    • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

    • NuLanguage - Our language learning program

    • Gym partnership



    Diversity & Inclusion


    At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.






    Client-provided location(s): São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
    Job ID: 93b29764fbc24b7d585fd0d8d51c88c286bd176ce8c1410e5e340b233f7a0773
    Employment Type: Other