Jobs in Devon, United Kingdom

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 millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. For more information, visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/

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:

• Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging 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.

• Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture
• Set technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies
• Drive pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies
• Mentor engineers across teams, establishing and maintaining a high technical bar organization-wide
• Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code. Able to pair and participate in code reviews to contribute to the growth of others in and around the team
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new experiences
• Ensure comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and error handling across team services
• 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

• At least 10 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands (or even millions) of users
• Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with ability to work across multiple languages
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD
• Good communication skills to prevent risks and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 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
• Work from Home Allowance
• Travel Insurance for Business Trips
• Vacation

This role is designated as CA-based remote, meaning you\'ll operate from your home office within Canada. 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.