About Nu

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. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.

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.

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Engineering at Nubank

We strive for state-of-the-art software development practices, that currently includes 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.

• 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 can read more about it in our engineering blog and get some insights into how we work.

You’ll be Responsible for

• Lead a team of 8~10 software engineers (ICs)

• Foster a culture of teamwork, feedback and continuous improvement

• Conduct effective 1:1s, team meetings and rituals

• Manage individual contributors, enabling them to be high performers and support others

• Deliver distributed systems at scale

• Align stakeholders around team’s vision, goals, and metrics

• Reason about software architecture design decisions

• Look and implement improvements in the way we work and organize

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Experience leading Engineering teams, ideally with a background as a software engineer or software architect

• Experience being accountable for people management, having exposure to performance assessment, hiring, supporting career growth, etc

• Experience leading agile teams, being familiar with the most relevant ceremonies, metrics and processes

• A good level of technical understanding, being able to take part in architecture discussions with Engineers and to translate complex, technical projects and concepts for non-engineers.

• Advanced level of English - you'll be part of a global team

 

Location

Bogotá, Colombia

Work model

Hybrid

Office requirement

Hybrid 2–3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/.

 

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.

Our Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank

• NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program

• Life Insurance

• Medical Plan

• Dental Plan

• NuLanguage – Language Course Program

• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

• Extended Parental Leave

• Daycare Allowance

• Parental Consultancy

• Work-from-home Allowance

• Gym Partnerships

• Vacations of 15 workdays

• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

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.