Tech Stack

Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at Nu, you'll shape the technical direction of multiple teams, design and evolve large-scale distributed systems serving millions of customers. You'll work with Clojure, Kafka, AWS, and other modern technologies in a process-light, collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and understanding of their architecture and trade-offs
• Proficiency in writing, testing, and maintaining high-quality code
• Ability to collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders
• Experience with observability, performance monitoring, and error handling
• Openness to contributing to mobile and frontend development as needed

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business and architecture strategies
• Design and evolve horizontally scalable microservices in Clojure using functional programming and hexagonal architecture
• Drive pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and scalable solutions
• Mentor engineers across teams and maintain a high technical bar
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents