Senior Software Engineer - Bogotá, Colombia (Hybrid):
About Us:
Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 127 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 we're building.
About the role:
Our Engineering team helps Nu create and scale the technology that powers the best financial products in Latin America. We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, using a variety of technologies and architectures to build resilient, secure, and highly scalable systems.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in leading the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems within your team, and influencing technical decisions in close collaboration with adjacent teams. While we value experience with our tech stack,
we are confident that engineers who are eager to learn will be successful here — and we will teach you Clojure as our main backend language.
You will build and evolve:
- Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture
- High-throughput jobs and inter-service communication using Kafka:
- Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines on AWS:
- Data storage solutions using Datomic and DynamoDB:
- Monitoring and observability with Prometheus:
- Services running as much as possible in Kubernetes
We are a process-light organization that values human interactions. We work in small, independent teams that feel like startups within the company and avoid unnecessary coupling and centralization whenever realistic. We understand that execution is key to success and continuously optimize our processes to remove bottlenecks.
You'll be responsible for:
- Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding