Amongst all the babble and nonsense in the latest Defn podcast, Mia has some thoughts on that. BTW I love the babble and the nonsense.

Huh. I have that same sense about statically typed functional languages, but I didn’t have that same impression about Clojure. Interesting, if you’re right.

Out of curiosity I did a google search of clojure jobs plus fintech. The following list of companies is the result:

• https://allstreet.org/ • https://bindhq.com/ • https://dean.com/ • https://droit.tech/ • https://griffin.sh/ • https://multis.co/ • https://nubank.com.br/en/ • https://treasuryprime.com/ • https://www.dividendfinance.com/ • https://www.earnestresearch.com/ • https://www.fundingcircle.com/us/ • https://www.klarna.com/us/ • https://www.lifecheq.co.za/ • https://www.opploans.com/ • https://www.pennymacusa.com/ • https://www.pkc.io/ • https://www.railsbank.com/ • https://www.rate.com/ • https://www.revolut.com/en-US • https://www.salliemae.com/ • https://www.uplift.com/

the list is probably out of date or just plain out wrong... for instance, a company is listed there if they ever listed a job ad with the keyword "Clojure", even if they don't really use clojure on their stack... I expect some of those to be dead companies or have "pivoted" to something other than fintech. Or perhaps I copy-pasted the wrong link, who knows 😛

but some of them do sound familiar

Can confirm for pennymac 😁

Nubank with more than 500 clojurians and growing

I had a chance to talk with the CTO of Nubank couple of years ago at DCD. They did exactly what you describe - Datomic was the tech choice, Clojure naturally followed from that. Can't tell for the rest :)

A lot of fintech is sending/receiving/transforming messages of varying tedious financial formats, which maps very nicely to Clojure's data-first ideology