Staff Software Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer: Developing and maintaining horizontally scalable microservices using Clojure, Finagle, and functional programming techniques for hirify.global's financial platform with an accent on high throughput jobs, inter-service communication using Kafka, and continuous integration into AWS. Focus on resilient and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies, ensuring comprehensive observability and performance monitoring.

Location: Hybrid 2-3 times/week in Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, or Sao Paulo, Brazil

Company

Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world, with more than 122 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

What you will do

• Work with large scale distributed systems, understanding their broad architecture.
• Set technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies.
• Drive pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies.
• Mentor engineers across teams, establishing and maintaining a high technical bar organization-wide.
• Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code, collaborating in code reviews to contribute to the growth of others.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new experiences.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands (or even millions) of users.
• Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with ability to work across multiple languages.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Advanced English skills

Culture & Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at hirify.global.
• Food/ Meal Card
• Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program.
• 30 days of paid vacation.
• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable.