Lead Software Engineer

About Us

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/ 

About the role

At Nubank, one of our engineering principles is "Leverage Through Platforms". We believe that platforms are a very efficient way of solving complex concerns that are needed for different products and teams.

The Credit Platform leverages Nubank's accounting to a new level, according to the Q2'2023 investors' earnings call, Nu had an interest-earning portfolio of $6.3 billion, this amount of impact is delivered by the capabilities available at our platforms.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Credit Platform. This role involves evolving, developing and maintaining the horizontal platform that provides all credit operations for the company, which enables clients to create and manage loans through various operations throughout the loan lifecycle.

You'll be responsible for

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for the platform;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features;
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications;
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs;
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

We are looking for a person who has

• Proficiency in functional programming languages, focused on Clojure;
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture;
• Familiarity with database systems, data cache, non-relational databases and data modeling;
• Understanding of distributed systems;
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think algorithmically.

Our Benefits

• Learning and wellness allowance
• Vacations of 28 working days
• Opportunity of earning equity at Nu
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves 
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Work-from-home Allowance

Our Nu Way of Working 

Our work model is hybrid and has cycles that can be from two to three months according to the business of ​​expertise. For every eight or twelve weeks of remote work, one will be at the office.

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