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.

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. 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 the main programming language (We Will teach you Clojure). Horizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging upon functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture Continuous Integration and Deployment into AWS Storing data in Datomic and DynamoDB Monitoring and observability with Prometheus We value working in small, independent teams that feel like small startups within the company, and eschew coupling and centralizing where realistic.

Set technical direction for multiple teams,



ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies Drive pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies Mentor engineers across teams, establishing and maintaining a high technical bar organization-wide Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code. Ensure comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and error handling across team services Work focused on backend applications, and be open to contribute to mobile and frontend development, according to business needs At least 10 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands (or even millions) of users Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with ability to work across multiple languages Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD Positive communication skills to prevent risks and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Advanced English skills Health Insurance Life Insurance Pension Plan Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses NuLanguage - Our language learning program Vacations 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;

📌 Tech Lead Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Nubank
📍 Toronto