Lead Software Engineer - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid)
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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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 Lead Software Engineer , you will serve as a technical authority across entire business domains, shaping company-wide engineering strategy and driving the architectural evolution of large-scale distributed systems that power our core platform for tens of millions of customers. While we value experience with our tech stack, we are confident that top-tier technical leaders who are eager to learn will thrive here — and we will support your mastery of Clojure as our main backend language.
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What We're Looking For Someone Who Has
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Work Setup
Location
[City, Country] — For the same position in different locations, you should add additional locations in the Basic info session
Work model
[Hybrid / On-Site]
Office requirement
2 days per week at the office.
Our Benefits
BRAZIL JOBS:
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank - [Reminder: Ops Teams don't have equity];
- Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
- Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
- 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
- 30 days of paid vacation
- Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
MEXICO JOBS:
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank - [Reminder: Ops Teams don't have equity];
- Food Card
- 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
- Holiday Bonus ("Aguinaldo") of 30 days of pay per year
- 17 days of paid vacation with 25% vacation bonus
- Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
COLOMBIA JOBS:
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank - [Reminder: Ops Teams don't have equity];
- 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.