Senior Software Engineer

Nubank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 205,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Extended maternity and paternity leave

Nucleo learning platform

Job summary

Nubank in Toronto is actively seeking a backend software engineer focused on distributed systems. You will develop horizontal scalable microservices primarily in Clojure (we will teach you Clojure), leveraging Kafka, Datomic/DynamoDB, and AWS.

The role emphasizes clean code, teamwork across Product, Design, and Engineering, and delivering high-performance fintech services. The successful candidate will join a small, autonomous team within a startup-like environment, contributing to scalable

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 communicates effectively across functional teams.
• A software engineer who cares deeply about user experience.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD and agile software development methodologies.
• Advanced English skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with large scale distributed systems and understand their broad architecture.
• Plan and execute on entire features, collaborating with peers.
• 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 the team.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner Engineering teams to build new experiences.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents.

Skills

Distributed systems

CI/CD

English (Advanced)

Backend development

Clojure (learnable)

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Datomic

DynamoDB

Prometheus

Job description

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 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.

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 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 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. Visit our Institutional Page.

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:

• 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.

You will be responsible for

• 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

We are looking for a person who has

• 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 is able to 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
• Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD
• Advanced English skills

Our Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• 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.