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 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:
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Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging upon functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture
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High throughput jobs and inter-service communication using Kafka
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Continuous Integration and Deployment into AWS
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Storing data in Datomic and DynamoDB
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Monitoring and observability with Prometheus
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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
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Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture
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Plan and execute on entire features, collaborating with peers while planning the work ahead
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Collaborate in building microservices and work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
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Work with agile software development methodologies
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Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code
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Pair, and participate in code reviews, to grow and contribute to the growth of others in and around the team
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Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and partner Engineering teams to build new experiences
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Participate in on-call rotations for your team and respond to incidents as necessary
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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
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At least 6 years of experience developing digital products
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Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements, translating them into technical design and implementation
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A problem-solver who is able to communicate effectively across functional teams
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A software engineer who cares deeply about user experience
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Proven understanding of object-oriented or functional programming language
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Notions of distributed systems and familiarity with cloud technologies
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Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD
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Advanced English skills
Our Benefits
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Health Insurance
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Life Insurance
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Pension Plan
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Extended maternity and paternity leaves
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Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
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NuLanguage - Our language learning program
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NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
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Vacations
Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits.
Base salary range: $147,996 - $185,004
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
