Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Nubank
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About Us
Nubank 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. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human. Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Bank. Visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/.
About the Role
Our Engineering team helps Nubank 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).
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
Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture
Plan and execute on entire features, collaborating with peers while planning the work ahead
Collaborate in building microservices and work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
Work with agile software development methodologies
Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code
Pair, and participate in code reviews, to grow and contribute to the growth of others in and around the team
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and partner Engineering teams to build new experiences
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
Qualifications
At least 6 years of experience developing digital products
Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements, translating them into technical design and implementation
A problem‑solver who can communicate effectively across functional teams
A software engineer who cares deeply about user experience
Proven understanding of object‑oriented or functional programming language
Notions of distributed systems and familiarity with cloud technologies
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior experience with CI/CD
Advanced English skills
Benefits
Chance of earning equity at Nubank
NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Health Insurance
Parental Leave
NuLanguage – Language Course Program
Nucleo – Our learning platform of courses
Work from Home Allowance
Travel Insurance for Business Trips
Vacation
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/.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
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Job Details
Posted Date:
November 12, 2025
Job Type:
Technology
Location:
Canada
Company:
Nubank
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