Today, Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, with over 118 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. From day one, our goal has been to challenge the status quo of the financial industry—using proprietary technology and data to build innovative, easy-to-use products that actually solve real problems.

Our mission is simple: to fight financial complexity and empower people. That’s why we create end-to-end solutions that support customers throughout their entire financial journey—promoting access, transparency, and real progress through responsible credit.

With an efficient and scalable business model, we’re able to combine low operational costs with sustainable growth. This approach has earned international recognition in rankings like Time’s “100 Most Influential Companies,” Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies,” and Forbes’ “World’s Best Banks.”

Our mission is to give people back control of their financial lives. We make the extraordinary happen by consistently challenging the status quo and driving innovation.

Some pillars support us to achieve this goal – and technology is certainly one of them.

Many of our teams need to analyze large datasets to make the best decisions for the customer – be it, for example, develop a product, make our service smarter and more efficient or better understand how people interact with our services. And this is where our technology hub in Berlin, Germany, opened in late 2017, comes in.

Situated in the Mitte neighborhood, synthesis of the past, the present and the future of Berlin, the office is home to a growing number of cross-functional teams. They are dedicated to maintain and evolve a world-class self-service data platform, enabling nearly every team at Nubank to leverage data for automated decision making, financial control and reporting, strategic analysis, etc.

Berlin office includes meeting rooms equipped with Zoom and Google Meet features, phone booths for focused individual work, and a game room designed for relaxation and team-building interactions.

The data infrastructure teams

Our data infrastructure teams are responsible for building services that are scalable and resilient for processing, managing, and monitoring large-scale distributed data processing systems. That includes designing well thought and documented APIs, backed by scalable data ingestion, processing, and serving systems. 

We make heavy use of Nubank’s standard tech stack, including building Clojure microservices. But given our focus on data processing, we also continually explore and leverage big data technologies for batch and streaming processing, building machine learning models, etc.

Our data infrastructure teams do not build data pipelines, models, or analyses for specific business areas. Instead, we provide a managed self-service platform that empowers business analysts, data scientists, analytics engineers, and many other roles to leverage data with autonomy, supporting a high-performance culture aligned with Nubank’s values.

In addition to our data infrastructure teams, a growing number of teams from Nubank’s wider Engineering Horizontal organization have a presence in the Berlin tech hub. They are focused on areas such as core infrastructure automation, developer experience, databases, mobile development platform, distributed systems R&D, among others.

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Why open a tech hub in Berlin?

There are several reasons for having a team in Germany.

The first one is that Berlin is a fantastic city not only for the quality of life, but also for being a center of activities related to technology. The city is a hub for events, companies and data processing research – and it is also a central point that gives easy access to other cities in Europe.

Another reason is that the city has a friendly infrastructure for foreigners and many inhabitants speak English – which greatly facilitates communication.

Finally, and related to the previous points, investing in a European tech hub allows us to foster one of our main values, that is to build strong and diverse teams. At Nubank, diversity and collaboration help us achieve extraordinary outcomes, as we’re committed to being a good reference for career growth.

Nubank’s work at Berlin tech hub

The atmosphere in the office is very similar to that of our São Paulo headquarters. We don’t have a formal dress code (wearing shorts and flip flops is absolutely normal) and we encourage anyone who wants to bring their pets to work.

As Nubank is a company that actively seeks diversity at the workplace and gender equality, Berlin is a perfect blend of a great pool of talent with diverse backgrounds.

Nowadays, we have over 40 Nubankers from twelve nationalities (and growing), coming from three different continents. We arrived at the office from Brazil, France, Italy, India, Poland, United States, Peru, Chile, Portugal, Ukraine, Croatia and, clearly, Germany. 

Nubank operates as a global company. In addition to our offices in the markets where we currently operate—Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia—and our tech hub in Berlin, we also have technology centers in Uruguay and the United States, home to Cognitect (creators of Clojure and Datomic), which became part of Nubank in 2020.

In Berlin, our way of working is built around small, autonomous teams. That means more agility, independent decision-making, and less day-to-day bureaucracy. But autonomy doesn’t mean isolation—we remain deeply connected to the rest of Nubank, sharing the same values, the same mission, and a strong commitment to creating real impact in people’s lives.

We’re looking for diverse technical talent to help build this vision with us—from software engineers to data infrastructure specialists, from product leaders to systems engineers. Here, every person plays a key role in building financial solutions that are simpler, more accessible, and truly innovative for millions of customers.

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