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.

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 si focused on software development with Clojure as main programming language (We will teach you Clojure)

You will be responsible for

• 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 looking for a person who has

• Work with large scale distributed systems


• Collaborate with building microservices


• Have worked in teams defining asynchronous integrations using event-driven architectures


• Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies


• Work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code


• Work focused on backend applications. We are almost 100% back end oriented

Our Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank


• 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

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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Diversity & Inclusion

At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.