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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.

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

Key Responsibilities

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 versátil 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

Required Qualifications

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

Benefits

Chance of earning equity at Nubank
NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Medical Plan
NuLanguage – Language Course Program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
Extended Parental Leave
Work from Home Allowance

15 days of paid vacation

Even if you feel you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply — your unique skills and experiences may be just what we're looking for, and we're excited to learn more about what you can bring to our team.
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/ for more details.

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📌 Lead Software Engineer – Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid) (Neuquén)
🏢 Nubank
📍 Neuquén