Summary
Sara Sousa is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brazil with eight years of experience building backend systems and APIs, currently advancing product and platform efforts at Nubank. She has a strong Python background designing REST APIs, event-driven architectures with SQS/SNS and RabbitMQ, and experience with serverless Function-as-a-Service patterns. Her trajectory shows rapid growth within Nubank from Associate to Senior in under four years, reflecting ownership of scalable, production-grade services. Earlier work blends research-minded automation of acceptance and exploratory testing with front-end maintenance, giving her a practical full-stack empathy for cross-team quality. Quietly meticulous, she pairs research-rooted test automation skills with hands-on backend engineering to deliver reliable, observable systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, French