Staff Software Engineer

Nubank

4 months ago

Toronto, Canada

Staff+

Responsibilities

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.
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new experiences.
Ensure comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and error handling across team services.
Participate in on-call rotations for your team and respond to incidents as necessary.
Work focused on backend applications, and be open to contribute to mobile and frontend development, according to business needs.

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.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations.
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous experience with CI/CD.
Good communication skills to prevent risks and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Advanced English skills.

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