Senior Software Engineer - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid)

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 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.

Responsibilities

Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs; Setting technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies; Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies; Mentoring engineers across teams and helping maintain a high technical bar organization-wide; 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 teams; 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 team services; Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary; Focusing primarily on backend applications, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs

Requirements

At least 4 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 across multiple teams, even without direct authority; Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations; 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

Nice to have

Experience with our tech stack

Benefits

Chance of earning equity; Health Insurance; Life Insurance; NuCare; International business travel insurance; NuLanguage; Vacations; Parental leaves; Work from home allowance