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Senior Software Engineer – Bogotá, Colombia (Hybrid)

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · Bogota

Employer listed it 2 months ago · Added yesterday

Been open since 2 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Hybrid · Bogota

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Category

Software

This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $175k–$230k a year, a typical range taken from 595 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Bogota, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Bogota, Hybrid"
  • Listing mentions "Hybrid"

What Nomaders makes of it

  • Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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About the role

About Nu

Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.

Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability. Visit our Institutional Page

About the role

Our Engineering team helps Nu create and scale the technology that powers the best financial products in Latin America. We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, using a variety of technologies and architectures to build resilient, secure, and highly scalable systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer , you will play a key role in leading the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems within your team, and influencing technical decisions in close collaboration with adjacent teams. While we value experience with our tech stack, we are confident that engineers who are eager to learn will be successful here — and we will teach you Clojure as our main backend language.

You will build and evolve:

Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure , using Finagle and leveraging functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture

High-throughput jobs and inter-service communication using Kafka

Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines on AWS

Data storage solutions using Datomic and DynamoDB

Monitoring and observability with Prometheus

Services running as much as possible in Kubernetes

We are a process-light organization that values human interactions. We work in small, independent teams that feel like startups within the company and avoid unnecessary coupling and centralization whenever realistic. We understand that execution is key to success and continuously optimize our processes to remove bottlenecks.

You'll be responsible for

Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs

Leading technical direction for your team and partnering with adjacent teams to keep solutions aligned with our architecture and business strategy

Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies

Mentoring engineers within and around your team and helping maintain a high technical bar

Writing, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code

Pairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your team

Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences

Ensuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across your team’s services

Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary

Requirements

  • ·Bogotá, Colombia.
  • ·Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Colombia, they include:
  • ·Chance of earning equity at Nu
  • ·Extended maternity and paternity leaves
  • ·Health and life insurance

Benefits

  • ·Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Colombia, they include:
  • ·Chance of earning equity at Nu
  • ·Extended maternity and paternity leaves
  • ·Health and life insurance
  • ·NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Nubank, mentioning your remote working experience.
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 1d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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