Nubank
Engineering Director, AI Developer Experience (AIDE)
Palo Alto · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
About the job
Leads Nu’s AI Developer Experience pillar, building teams and tools that use AI to improve how engineers write, review, deploy, and operate software.
What you'll do
- Scale the AI Developer Experience organization and drive measurable improvements in engineering output and AI token efficiency.
- Lead workstreams in context infrastructure, agentic coding, AI code review, and AI SRE; shape additional platform scope.
- Manage third-party AI partnerships and build-versus-buy decisions using objective evaluations and benchmarks.
What they ask for
- Proven leadership of AI-native developer tooling or platform teams, ideally at meaningful engineering scale.
- Experience building dedicated engineering teams from fragmented or part-time resources and leading people effectively.
- Experience structuring and managing third-party vendor partnerships alongside first-party development.
- Hands-on technical credibility in agentic coding systems, context/retrieval infrastructure, or developer-facing AI tooling.
Nice to have
- Experience with sandboxed agentic execution, retrieval-augmented systems, or LLM-based code review tooling; familiarity with AI token-cost management.
- Prior exposure to fintech, regulated environments, or large legacy codebases.
Tools
Vector, Confluence, Jira
AI focus
Leads AI-native developer experience, including agentic coding, context retrieval, AI-assisted code review, AI SRE, model routing, and evaluation of AI tools.
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