Security Software Engineer (Appsec)

About Nubank

Nubank was founded in 2013 to free people from a bureaucratic, slow and inefficient financial system. Since then, through innovative technology and outstanding customer service, the company has been redefining people's relationships with money across Latin America. With operations in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, Nubank is today one of the largest digital banking platforms and technology-leading companies in the world.

Today, Nubank is a global company, with offices in São Paulo (Brazil), Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogotá (Colombia), Durham (United States), and Berlin (Germany). It was founded in 2013 in Sao Paulo, by Colombian David Vélez, and cofounded by Brazilian Cristina Junqueira and American Edward Wible. For more information, visit www.nubank.com.br.

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;
• Collaborating efficiently to ship quality service/products.

Our Security Team at Nubank

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.

Core Benefits

• Health, dental and life insurances
• Meal allowance
• Transportation assistance
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Parking partnership - discounted parking in our office
• Free bike parking with showers available
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• Gympass partnership
• Extended maternity and paternity Leaves  
• Child care allowance
• ‘Espaço Feijão’- Private nursing and breastfeeding spaces in our buildings
• Onsite Health Center - Medical support for every Nubanker in our office

*Interviewing and onboarding are currently done virtually due to COVID-19. Everyone new to the team and our current staff will remain working from home until it is safe to return to our offices. If/when relocation is required, we have a team dedicated to global mobility and have partnered up with the best companies in the market to make sure processes run smoothly. We also offer a very competitive relocation package for international hires.