Posted 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer
@ Nubank
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Nubank is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a full-time role on its Engineering team, building scalable backend microservices mainly in Clojure. The work covers distributed systems, continuous delivery into AWS, and on-call incident response. The posting lists a base salary range of $147,996 to $185,004 plus RSUs and benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Build horizontally scalable microservices, mostly in Clojure
- Plan and deliver full features with peers
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
- Take part in code reviews and on-call rotations
Requirements summary:
- At least 6 years developing digital products
- Understanding of object-oriented or functional programming
- Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud technologies
- Practical agile and CI/CD experience
- Advanced English
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-07-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-19
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 6+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Generous parental leave, Retirement plan, Wellness |
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Nubank
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Full company description
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwzcXK2PUo
- LinkedIn followers
- 5,996,310
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 13,006
- Reported office locations
- Rua Capote Valente, São Paulo, SP, BR
- Rosenthaler Straße, Berlin, Mitte 10119, DE
- Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México 06600, MX
- Buenos Aires, Cidade Autônoma B1638 BEV, AR
- Carrera 11 # 79 - 66, Bogota, Colombia, Building Spaces, Bogotá, CO
- 101 W Chapel Hill St, Durham, North Carolina 27701, US
- Business categories
- Consumer
- Information Technology
- Banking
- Credit Cards
- FinTech
- Financial Services
- Other recorded names
- Nubank
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 4,483,534,602
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, 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…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company size | 5,001-10,000 employees |
| Headquarters | São Paulo, SP |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 9 |
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About Nu
Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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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
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.
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
Our Benefits
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Pension Plan
Extended maternity and paternity leaves
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
NuLanguage - Our language learning program
NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
Vacations
Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits.
Base salary range: $147,996 - $185,004
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.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
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