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Design and lead horizontally scalable microservices and high‑throughput jobs, set technical direction across multiple teams, and ensure observability and reliability in a cloud‑native environment.
10+ years of experience building large‑scale digital products, deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud (AWS, Kubernetes), and strong programming skills (object‑oriented or functional), plus proven mentorship and leadership abilities.
The role drives the core backend infrastructure that powers Nu’s financial platform for millions of customers, enabling the company’s mission to simplify finance and sustain growth.
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 the main programming language (We will teach you Clojure). Main responsibilities:
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.
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Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits. Base salary range: $168,000 - $210,000
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
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