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.

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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 Lead Software Engineer , you will serve as a technical authority across entire business domains, shaping company-wide engineering strategy and driving the architectural evolution of large-scale distributed systems that power our core platform for tens of millions of customers.



While we value experience with our tech stack, we are confident that top-tier technical leaders who are eager to learn will thrive here — and we will support your mastery of Clojure as our main backend language.

You’ll be Responsible for
- Architectural Leadership: Defining long-term technical vision and architecture roadmaps across business area, balancing immediate business goals with long-term system sustainability.
- Strategic Alignment: Partnering with Leaders to translate team business strategy into scalable engineering systems and technical bets.
- Engineering Excellence: Setting and raising the technical bar for the entire engineering organization through systemic improvements, architectural reviews, and best-practice frameworks.
- High-Impact Execution: Hands-on leadership in designing, prototyping, and executing on the most complex, high-risk, or foundational systems in the company.
- Me

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Buenos Aires)
🏢 Nubank
📍 Buenos Aires