Senior Software Engineer

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Engage in building horizontally scalable microservices and work with high throughput jobs in a process-light, startup-like team environment.

About Us

Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 127 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 https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/  


Engineering at Nubank

We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, that currently includes 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.

  • 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.

 

As a Software Engineer, you’re expected to:

  • Work with large scale distributed systems
  • Collaborate with building microservices
  • Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies
  • Work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code


Location for this opportunity

  • Miami, United States


Our Benefits

  • Opportunity of earning equity at Nu
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance and AD&D
  • Extended maternity and paternity leaves 
  • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
  • NuLanguage - Our language learning program
  • NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
  • Extended maternity and paternity leaves 
  • 401K
  • Saving Plans - Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable.


Work Model for this Role

 

 

Explore how we build technology at Nubank:

🔗 building.nubank.com.br

🎥 youtube.com/@building.nubank

🎧 Listen to our stories on Spotify

 

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Equity Compensation: Opportunity of earning equity at Nu
  • Health Insurance: Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Home Office Stipend: Work-from-home Allowance
  • Learning Budget: Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
  • Other Benefit: Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Extended maternity and paternity leaves
  • Wellness Stipend: NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program

Nubank is a Brazilian neobank and the largest fintech bank in Latin America.

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