Principal Engineer, Mobile Platforms

Principal Engineer, Mobile Platforms - BR
The Opportunity:

This position is for an Engineer Principal (IC9) to join the Mobile Platforms BU.

Mobile Platforms is the BU responsible for Nubank's entire mobile foundation: we design, build, and operate the platforms that power the Nubank app across all markets. The BU is organized in three business areas – App Foundations (core architecture, app startup, developer experience), App Enablement (navigation performance, Backend Driven Content/BDC, design system infra & Rosetta), and App Release (CI/CD, release train, observability, app analytics & data). Together, these areas provide the canonical Flutter + BDC architecture, tooling, and guardrails that enable product teams to ship a fast, reliable, and consistent app at global scale.

About Nubank's Engineering Culture:

We believe in small, independent teams, a process-light environment, and a culture of trust and collaboration. We made a strategic bet on Flutter and Server-Driven UI not just for technical reasons, but because they empower our engineers to work end-to-end and scale our organization. You will be a key steward and champion of this culture, driving technical decisions that reinforce our principles of autonomy and developer empowerment.  

What we have to offer:

• The opportunity to lead the technical direction of Nubank's Mobile Platform – the foundational system that underpins the Nubank app for tens of millions of customers across all markets.
• Ownership of multi‑year, high‑visibility initiatives such as Mobile Destination Architecture, native code deprecation, app startup refactor, navigation performance, BDC evolution and App Excellence, with clear impact on company OKRs.
• A uniquely cross‑cutting scope across App Foundations, App Enablement and App Release – spanning architecture, developer experience, CI/CD, observability and data – allowing you to shape how the entire engineering org builds mobile products.
• Space to grow your principal‑level leadership: driving strategy, defining technical roadmaps, sponsoring other senior/principal engineers, and representing Mobile Platforms in cross‑company forums and executive discussions.
• A highly collaborative environment with top mobile, platform and experience design talent, where you will partner closely with Magic App, NuDS, Growth and markets teams to deliver a world‑class, consistent and high‑performance app.

Core Qualifications (What We're Looking For)

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale mobile applications or platforms at an enterprise level.
• Has deep expertise in mobile architecture (Flutter/Dart, native bridges, modularization, mono-repo architectures) and can design end‑to‑end solutions spanning app startup, navigation, state management, and release lifecycle.
• Understands and can evolve BDC (Backend Driven Content) as Nubank's main server‑driven UI platform, defining how BDC, Flutter and NuDS work together to enable safe, fast iteration without depending on store releases.
• Is capable of setting the technical vision for the three Mobile Platforms business areas (App Foundations, App Enablement, App Release), connecting architecture choices with company‑level goals such as App Excellence, Magic App and Destination Architecture.
• Has a strong track record of leading large, ambiguous cross‑org initiatives – e.g., native‑to‑Flutter/BDC migrations, app startup refactors, navigation performance programs, or observability/analytics redesigns – influencing dozens of squads and multiple BUs.
• Drives platform engineering at scale: defines canonical patterns, RFCs and reference implementations; creates reusable tools/libraries; and ensures that internal customers can adopt the platform with low friction and high quality.
• Is comfortable leading through influence: aligning PMs, EMs, Staff/Principal engineers and leadership on trade‑offs (performance vs. flexibility, platform vs. product), and making tough calls grounded in data, risk and long‑term sustainability.
• Invests heavily in technical leadership and mentorship, raising the bar for senior engineers across Mobile Platforms and product BUs, and building a strong culture around architecture reviews, design docs, and post‑incident learning.
• Cares deeply about observability, reliability and release health for mobile: tying together app metrics (startup, TTFD, crashes, jank), CI/CD, feature rollout (BDC + app releases) and on‑call practices into a coherent strategy.
• Is motivated by working on a horizontal, high‑impact platform that directly shapes how every experience in the Nubank app is built, released and monitored, across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and future markets.

If you feel interested in these challenges and want to work on a very engaged and talented team, this is the place for you

Role Location 

São Paulo, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro or Belo Horizonte

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