Software Engineer

Bogotá - Colombia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us

Nu 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 were 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 Companys Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Worlds Best Bank. Visit our institutional page 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)

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 and seeing it through
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 4 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
Collaborate with building microservices
Notions of distributed systems and familiarity with cloud technologies
Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD

Our Benefits

Chance of earning equity at Nu
Extended maternity and paternity leaves
Health and life insurance
NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
NuLanguage - Our language learning program
Vacations of 15 workdays
Gym partnership
Work-from-home Allowance
Parental Consultancy
Relocation Assistance Package if applicable

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

About UsNu 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...