Senior Software Engineer – Mexico City, Mexico (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.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NU), we combine proprietary technology, data intelligence, and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple, accessible, and human. Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World's Best Bank. Visit our institutional page

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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 their broad architecture and trade-offs

Leading technical direction for your team and partnering with adjacent teams to keep solutions aligned with our architecture and business strategy

Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and versátil solutions that scale across products and geographies

Mentoring engineers within and around your team and helping maintain a high technical bar

Writing, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code

Pairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your team





Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences

Ensuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across your team's services

Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary

Focusing primarily on

backend

applications

We are looking for a person who has

At least

6 years of experience

developing digital products in complex environments

Deep expertise in

distributed systems ,

microservices architecture , and

cloud technologies

A proven track record of designing and delivering

large-scale systems

that serve thousands or millions of users

A strong background in

object-oriented or functional programming languages , with the ability to work across multiple languages

Demonstrated ability to

lead technical initiatives

end-to-end within a team and in collaboration with partner teams

Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar in their teams

Practical knowledge of

agile software development methodologies

and prior experience with

CI/CD

Strong communication skills to identify and prevent risks, and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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 pr

📌 Senior Software Engineer Mexico City, Mexico (Ciudad de México)
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📍 Ciudad de México