Senior Software Engineer

Nu; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital financial platform in Canada is looking for a seasoned software engineer to develop high-scalable microservices using Clojure. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience in digital product development and is proficient in distributed systems and cloud technology. This role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative, agile environment and provide excellent user experiences, while also benefiting from programs like health insurance, life insurance, and a language course program.

Benefits

Chance of earning equity

NuCare – Assistance Program

Life Insurance

Health Insurance

NuLanguage – Language Course Program

Nucleo - Learning platform

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience developing digital products.
• Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements.
• Proven understanding of object-oriented or functional programming language.
• Advanced English skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with large scale distributed systems.
• Plan and execute on entire features.
• Collaborate in building microservices.
• Repair and respond to incidents when needed.
• Work focused on backend applications.

Skills

Clojure

Distributed systems

Cloud technologies

Agile methodologies

CI/CD

Problem-solving

Effective communication

User experience focus

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Datomic

DynamoDB

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Job description

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 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

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
• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Health Insurance
• NuLanguage – Language Course Program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching components of our company while ensuring neither of them represents a barrier when recruiting. We are committed to equal opportunity and inclusive hiring practices under all applicable laws.