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The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.\nProprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.\nVisit ourInstitutional Page\nAbout the role\nOur 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.\nAs a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of multiple teams, driving the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems that serve millions of customers. 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.\nYou will build and evolve:\nHorizontally scalable microservices written mostly in Clojure, using Finagle and leveraging functional programming techniques and hexagonal architecture\n\nHigh-throughput jobs and inter-service communication using Kafka\n\nContinuous Integration and Deployment pipelines on AWS\n\nData storage solutions using Datomic and DynamoDB\n\nMonitoring and observability with Prometheus\n\nServices running as much as possible in Kubernetes\n\nWe 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.\nYou'll be responsible for\nWorking with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs\n\nSetting technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies\n\nDriving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies\n\nMentoring engineers across teams and helping maintain a high technical bar organization-wide\n\nWriting, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code\n\nPairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your teams\n\nCollaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences\n\nEnsuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across team services\n\nParticipating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary\n\nFocusing primarily on backend applications, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs\n\nWe are looking for a person who has\nAt least 8 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments\n\nDeep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies\n\nA proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands or millions of users\n\nA strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with the ability to work across multiple languages\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, even without direct authority\n\nExperience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations\n\nPractical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior experience with CI/CD\n\nStrong communication skills to identify and prevent risks, and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\nAdvanced English skills\n\nLocation\nMexico City, Mexico.\nOur Benefits\nOur benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, development, and life outside of work. For Mexico, they include:\nChance of earning equity at Nu\n\nExtended maternity and paternity leaves\n\nHealth and life insurance\n\nDental and Vision Insurance\n\nNuCare - our mental health and wellness assistance program\n\nNucleo - our learning platform of courses\n\nNuLanguage - our language learning program\n\nHoliday Bonus (“Aguinaldo”) of 30 days of pay per year\n\n17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus\n\nGym partnership\n\nFood card\n\nWork-from-home Allowance\n\nParental Consultancy\n\nRelocation Assistance Package, if applicable\n\nEven 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.\nWork Model for this Role\nHybrid 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/.\nOur 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.\nTo maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. 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