Senior/Lead Software Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Financial Services
The Role
About Nu

Nu is the world’s largest digital banking platform outside of Asia, serving over 105 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns. Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. Learn more: https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/


Engineering at Nubank

We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, that currently includes 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.

  • 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

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.


As a Software Engineer, you’re expected to:
  • Work with large scale distributed systems
  • Collaborate with building microservices
  • Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies
  • Work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
Our Benefits
  • Remote work, with quarterly trips to Sao Paulo to build relationships with coworkers. 
  • Top Tier Medical Insurance
  • Top Tier Dental and Vision Insurance
  • 20 days time off, 14 company holidays, and great culture that emphasizes work life balance. 
  • Life Insurance and AD&D
  • Extended maternity and paternity leaves 
  • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
  • NuLanguage - Our language learning program
  • NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
  • 401K
  • Saving Plans - Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account
Nu Way of Working

This role is designated as US-based remote, meaning you'll operate from your home office within the United States. To foster strong team connections and align on strategic initiatives, our work model has cycles from two to three months according to the expertise business. One will be at the office, during one week, every eight or twelve weeks after working remotely.

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The Company
HQ: São Paulo, São Paulo
13,649 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services.

We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving more than 70 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

As one of the leading technology companies in the world, Nu leverages proprietary technologies and innovative business practices to create new financial solutions and experiences for individuals and SMEs that are simple, intuitive, convenient, low-cost, empowering, and human.

Guided by its mission, Nu is fostering access to financial services across Latin America.

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