Software Engineer - Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid)

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 140 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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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 is focused on software development with Clojure as main programming language (We will teach you Clojure), understanding how the created services produce and consume data—including the downstream impact of schema changes, data contracts, and data quality.

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 and managing data across ecosystems, including ETL pipelines, Datomic, and DynamoDB.

Monitoring and observability with Prometheus

Running as much as possible in Kubernetes

You will be responsible for

Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture

Plan and execute on entire features, collaborating with peers while planning the work ahead, and seeing it through

Collaborate in building microservices and work with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

Work with agile software development methodologies

Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code

Pair, and participate in code reviews, to grow and contribute to the growth of others in and around the team

Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and partner Engineering teams to build new experiences

Participate in on-call rotations for your team and respond to incidents as necessary

Work focused on backend applications, and be open to contribute to mobile and frontend development, according to business needs.

Baseline understanding of data manipulation and data processing at scale.

Familiarity with both transactional and analytical environments.

We are looking for a person who has

At least 4 years of experience developing digital products

Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements, translating them into technical design and implementation

A problem-solver who is able to communicate effectively across functional teams

A software engineer who cares deeply about user experience

Proven understanding of object-oriented or functional programming language

Collaborate with building microservices

Notions of distributed systems and familiarity with cloud technologies

Have practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD

Curiosity and willingness to develop breadth beyond the candidate’s primary specialty.

Ability to reason about how backend systems affect downstream data products.

Advanced English skills

Location

Mexico City, Mexico.

Our Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Mexico, they include:

Chance of earning equity at Nu

Extended maternity and paternity leaves

Health and life insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program

Nucleo – our learning platform of courses

NuLanguage – our language learning program

Holiday Bonus (“Aguinaldo”) of 30 days of pay per year

17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus

Gym partnership

Food card

Work-from-home Allowance

Parental Consultancy

Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Even if you feel you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply — your unique skills and experiences may be just what we're looking for, and we're excited to learn more about what you can bring to our team.

Work Model for this Role

Hybrid 2–3 times/week Mexico city: 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.