Staff Software Engineer – Distributed Systems Lead

Nubank; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Extended parental leaves

Health and life insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

NuCare – mental health support

Nucleo learning platform

NuLanguage – language learning

Holiday Bonus – Aguinaldo

Paid vacation with bonus

Work-from-home allowance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Nubank is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Mexico City to shape the technical direction of multiple teams. You will design and evolve large-scale distributed systems using our stack, mentor engineers, and deliver resilient, secure services.

While we value Clojure familiarity, we will teach it as the main backend language. You will drive architecture decisions, collaborate across Product and Design, and ensure observability and incident readiness across services.

Qualifications

• At least 8 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 millions of users.
• Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, across multiple languages.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, even without direct authority.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations.
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and CI/CD.
• Advanced English skills.

Responsibilities

• Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs.
• Setting technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies.
• Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies.
• Mentoring engineers across teams and helping maintain a high technical bar organization-wide.
• Writing, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code.
• Pairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your teams.
• Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences.
• Ensuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across team services.
• Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary.
• Focusing primarily on backend applications, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

Cloud technologies

Programming languages

Advanced English

Lead technical initiatives

Mentoring engineers

CI/CD

Tools

Clojure

Kafka

AWS

Datomic

DynamoDB

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

Nubank is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Mexico City to shape the technical direction of multiple teams. You will design and evolve large-scale distributed systems using our stack, mentor engineers, and deliver resilient, secure services.

While we value Clojure familiarity, we will teach it as the main backend language. You will drive architecture decisions, collaborate across Product and Design, and ensure observability and incident readiness across services.