We study a filtered Lie splitting scheme for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We establish error estimates at low regularity by using discrete Bourgain spaces. This allows us to handle data in H s H^s with 0 > s > 1 0>s>1 overcoming the standard stability restriction to smooth Sobolev spaces with index s > 1 / 2 s>1/2 . More precisely, we prove convergence rates of order τ s / 2 \tau ^{s/2} in L 2 L^2 at this level of regularity.