Founding software engineer - go specialist - nova

Founding Software Engineer - Go Specialist - NovaAbout Us

Nova is a new generation payment network, poised to be an alternative to the Visa/Master duopoly by leveraging real time payment infrastructures like Brazil s Pix & Open Finance for all daily transactions;

The company aims to empower consumers to pay anything, any way they want it including with installments, regardless of merchants options (yes, anything in up to 12x, always!); 

It does so by building a layer on top of Pix & Open Finance to improve their last-mile payment functionalities such as allowing for Financing (credit and installments), Fraud Protection (chargebacks and insurance) and less Friction (tap and pay for consumers, easy approval for merchants etc.);

Nova was founded in the end of 2023 by an elite team of financial services/fintech veterans, is backed by two leading venture capital funds (Monashees and Canary) and is now building its founding team Key Responsibilities

We are looking for an outstanding engineer to join our early-stage fintech as part of our founding team, as such you ll play a pivotal role in:

• Designing our foundational system architecture;

• Deciding our modern technology stack;

• Developing our key applications;

• Launching our MVP and iterating on product roadmap;

• Forming our engineering culture, promoting best practices and long-term focus

 

This is your chance to be a protagonist at work, working on challenging projects with a meaningful impact, as part of a select team of elite engineers in an uniquely ambitious new payment network company.

Ideal Profile 

• Background:

• Academic: 

• Preferred Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related fields

• Preferred Master/PhD degree in Computer Science or related fields

• Professional: 

• Required 5-10 years of experience with modern, technically advance companies

• Preferred experience with early-stage start-ups, specially 0 to 1 stage

• Preferred experience with fintech, specially payments in Brazil

• Success Track Record: 

• Preferred graduated from top schools and/or with top grades

• Preferred participated and/or won in competitions, received work-related awards

• Preferred active leader in the community, has published articles, given lectures etc. 

• Preferred other demonstrable proofs of ambition, intelligence and/or resilience 

 

• Hard Skills: 

• Required at least 3 years of experience in production-level software development with Go

• Preferred experience with Uber s Go libraries and framework

• Preferred experience with microservices and event-driven architecture (e.g. Kafka)

• Preferred experience with different APIs models, including GraphQL and Apollo Federation

• Preferred experience with DevOps best practices (e.g. Kubernetes, ArgoCD etc.)

• Preferred experience with AWS and Terraform

 

• Soft Skills:

• Required Entrepreneurship: passionate for the start-up environment, is a versatile professional that takes ownership of whatever project is working on, has a willingness to take calculated risks and highly values work with a purpose;

• Required Resourcefulness: makes the most of available resources while balancing ideal solutions with practical constraints (e.g. time, budget etc.), has a willingness to learn and the capability to adapt to continuously changing circumstances, technologies, and priorities;

• Required Critical Thinking: thinks thoroughly about any decision, researches all appropriate options, weights its pros and cons, debates the tradeoffs with the team and is able to make a well-justified decision (as well as properly documenting it)

• Required Initiative: is proactive, needing little guidance to start projects and with the and pulls the team, stays close to the code and its development, identifying and addressing challenges swiftly and decisively;

• Required Collaboration: enjoys team work, is transparent and in touch frequently with the whole team, communicates well (eloquently and swiftly) and is always willing to help; Is polite, thoughtful and kind, continuously build trust with all relevant stakeholders;

 

• Other Requirements

• Language: Required at least Full Professional Proficiency in English

• Location: Required at least 2x a week in office (Vila Madalena in São Paulo)

Compensation & Benefits 

• Model: PJ

• Salary: Above market average

• Equity: Aggressive partnership program

• Benefits: Paid vacations and robust health insurance