Senior Software Engineer

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 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