About Nu
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.
Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.
Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.
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About Us
Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
About the role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven Data Scientist to join our Credit Strategy team. This role focuses on applying innovative machine learning methodologies to our risk model and developing causal machine learning approaches for the initial line assignment workflow.
You will be responsible for
Translate business challenges into specific and well-designed machine learning solutions that meet business requirements;
Integrate and leverage external data sources to feed our models;
Ensure the team maintains a high level of technical excellence;
Contribute to a technical culture in the local team.
Bring expertise to the team to help design projects across the many areas involved in building machine learning products (training, deployment, data consistency, monitoring, governance, etc.)
We are looking for a person who has
Strong coding skills Python/Scala or equivalent languages;
Experimental design skills;
Ability to interact and communicate effectively with business and engineering;
Good understanding of model development and deployment pipeline;
Experience with machine learning tools and libraries such as Scikit-learn, Mllib and etc;
Nice data handling skills, Spark Dataframes, or SQL proficiency is a plus;
English language proficiency.
Local Benefits
Chance of earning equity at Nubank
Extended maternity and paternity leaves
Health and life insurance
NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
NuLanguage - Our language learning program
Gym partnership
Diversity & Inclusion
At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.
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Nubank Candidate Privacy Notice (English / Portuguese / Spanish).