Lead Software Engineer
NubankArgentina2 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology
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About Us
Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 122 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/
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 the main programming language (We will teach you Clojure). Main responsibilities:
You will be responsible for
Work Model for this Role
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 122 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/
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 the 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
You will be responsible for
- Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture
- Set technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies
- Drive pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies
- Mentor engineers across teams, establishing and maintaining a high technical bar organization-wide
- Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code. Able to pair and participate in code reviews to contribute to the growth of others in and around the team
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new experiences
- Ensure comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and error handling across team services
- 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
- At least 8 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies
- Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands (or even millions) of users
- Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with ability to work across multiple languages
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations
- Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD
- Good communication skills to prevent risks and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced English skills
- Chance of earning equity
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- NuCare
- International business travel insurance
- NuLanguage
- Vacations
- Parental leaves
- Work from home allowance
Work Model for this Role
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
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