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Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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About the role
As a Senior contributor within the Computing Squad, you will be in contact with critical pieces of foundational infrastructure where the majority of Nubank's workloads run, including Kubernetes, AWS, Network, and Service Communications. You will contribute to our Computing product strategy, find opportunities to improve our infrastructure, and set a high technical standard for the team.
You'll be responsible for
Contribute to our Computing product roadmap by identifying improvement opportunities within your team's scope, working closely with peers and Product Managers.
Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to improve our infrastructure in areas like performance, costs, and governance, focusing on your team's systems.
Act as a technical reference within the team, mentoring more junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and documentation to support a high-quality technical environment.
Participate in technical forums and cross-functional discussions, documenting and communicating technical decisions clearly to stakeholders within your immediate team or project.
Identify potential technical and product issues within your area of ownership, proposing design decisions to mitigate them.
Analyze problems to uncover root causes and develop effective solutions for team-level challenges, with a focus on medium-term impact.
Understand the technical aspects, capabilities, and limitations of the systems you own, contributing to discussions and incremental improvements.
We are looking for a person who has
Experience and knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS).
Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS.
Experience with access management (AWS IAM, Role management).
Experience with scaling tools like Karpenter, KEDA, and HPA.
Experience with the Golang programming language.
A passion for sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers.
Creativity and analytical thinking to find opportunities to improve our Computing Platform.
Location for this opportunity (City, Country)
Toronto, Canada
Our Benefits
Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits. Base salary range: $172.000 - $200.000
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Pension Plan
Extended maternity and paternity leaves
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
NuLanguage - Our language learning program
NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
Vacations 20 business days
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
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.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here