Principal Engineer, Mobile Platforms

Principal Engineer, Mobile Platforms

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)

• 15+ 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, s