Senior Software Engineer

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. For more information, visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/

About the role

Our Engineering team helps Nubank to 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 main programming language (We will teach you Clojure). Main 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

We are a process-light organization that values human interactions. We value working in small, independent teams that feel like small startups within the company, and eschew coupling and centralizing where realistic. We understand that execution is the key to success and optimize processes to remove bottlenecks.

You will be responsible for

• 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

We are looking for a person who has

• 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 is able to 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


• Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD


• Advanced English skills 

Our 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

Nu Way of Working

This role is designated as CA-based remote, meaning you'll operate from your home office within Canada. To foster strong team connections and align on strategic initiatives, our work model has cycles from two to three months according to the expertise business. One will be at the office, during one week, every eight or twelve weeks after working remotely.