Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

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: https://www.nu.com/2026-en



ENGINEERING AT NUBANK

We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, that currently includes 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.

 - 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.

 


AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU’RE EXPECTED TO:

 - Work with large scale distributed systems

 - Collaborate with building microservices

 - Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies

 - Work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
   
   


OUR BENEFITS

 - Chance of earning equity at Nubank

 - Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)

 - Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)

 - NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program

 - Life Insurance

 - Medical Plan

 - Dental Plan

 - NuLanguage – Language Course Program

 - Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

 - Extended Parental Leave

 - Daycare Allowance

 - Parental Consultancy

 - Work-from-home Allowance

 - Gym Partnerships

 - 30 days of paid vacation

 - 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 https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/

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.

By submitting an application, I acknowledge that I have read and understand the Nubank Candidate Privacy Notice.

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