clara · Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia; Mexico City / CDMX / Mexico; Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil
Skills: React, TypeScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, AWS, Docker, CI/CD
Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others. Staff Software Engineer Clara’s Payments Tribe builds the money movement engine behind our platform: digital accounts, Pix, boletos, payouts, ledger, and reconciliation. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own critical initiatives end-to-end—from framing the initial problem to running the solution seamlessly in production across Brazilian payment rails. The role In this role, you will navigate ambiguity with confidence. You will take initiatives from vague problem statements to shipped solutions, acting as the single thread of accountability for the deliverables under your scope. Own the problem: Talk to clients and internal Ops, read the regulatory docs, ruthlessly cut scope, write the one-pager, and tell us what not to build. Own the architecture: Define service boundaries, data models, event flows, and consistency guarantees. You will design systems for money that cannot be duplicated, lost, or silently double-counted. Own the direction: Own the technical roadmap for one or more Payments domains and set the patterns (ledger, idempotency, reconciliation) that other verticals adopt. Your designs become the reference implementation, not just the Payments implementation. Own the delivery (with AI as leverage): Orchestrate multiple AI agents in parallel for scaffolding, code generation, testing, and specs. You will serve as the expert judgment layer that catches what the models g…
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