Senior Software Engineer – Bogotá, Colombia

Nubank

Senior Software Engineer leading large-scale system development for fintech company Nu. Collaborating across teams to innovate in software solutions and mentoring other engineers.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeBogotá • 🇨🇴 ColombiaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies, with a strong ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers. Proficient in writing high-quality code and ensuring robust performance monitoring and observability across services.

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Distributed Systems ExpertiseMicroservices ArchitectureCloud TechnologiesAgile Software DevelopmentCI/CD Experience

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Hard Skills

Object-Oriented ProgrammingFunctional ProgrammingHigh-Quality Code MaintenancePerformance MonitoringError Handling

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsMentoring Engineers

Industry Keywords

Large-Scale SystemsDigital ProductsTechnical DirectionCollaborationOn-Call Rotations

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 flexible 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, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Chance of earning equity at Nu
Extended maternity and paternity leaves
Health and life insurance
NuCare – our mental health and wellness assistance program
Nucleo – our learning platform of courses
NuLanguage – our language learning program
Vacations of 15 workdays
Gym partnership
Work-from-home Allowance
Parental Consultancy
Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable