Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – Nubank

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About Us

Nubank is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 122 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people, we are redefining financial services in Latin America and this is still just the beginning of the purple future we're building. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human. Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Bank. Visit our institutional page

About the Role

Our Engineering team helps Nubank create and use the technology that provides us to build the best financial products. We strive for state‑of‑the‑art software development practices that currently include a variety of technologies. While we value candidates that are familiar with them, we are also confident that software engineers who are interested in joining Nubank will be able to learn from our team. The software engineer is focused on software development with Clojure as the main programming language (We will teach you Clojure).

Responsibilities

• Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging upon functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture
• High throughput jobs and inter‑service communication using Kafka
• Continuous Integration and Deployment into AWS
• Storing data in Datomic and DynamoDB
• Monitoring and observability with Prometheus
• Running as much as possible in Kubernetes
• Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture
• Plan and execute on entire features, collaborating with peers while planning the work ahead
• Collaborate in building microservices and work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Work with agile software development methodologies
• 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
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and partner Engineering teams to build new experiences
• Participate in on‑call rotations for your team and respond to incidents as necessary
• Work focused on backend applications, and be open to contribute to mobile and frontend development, according to business needs

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience developing digital products
• Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements, translating them into technical design and implementation
• A problem‑solver who can communicate effectively across functional teams
• A software engineer who cares deeply about user experience
• Proven understanding of object‑oriented or functional programming language
• Notions of distributed systems and familiarity with cloud technologies
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior experience with CI/CD
• Advanced English skills

Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• NuLanguage – Language Course Program
• Nucleo – Our learning platform of courses
• Work from Home Allowance
• Travel Insurance for Business Trips
• Vacation

Work Model for this Role

Hybrid 2‑3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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