# Staff Engineer (Ingeniero Staff) en Clara

- Empresa: [Clara](https://fintech.us.com/empresas/clara)
- Ubicación: Remoto, América Latina (100 % remoto)
- Nivel: Lead / Staff
- Área: Ingeniería de software
- Publicada: 5 de octubre de 2026
- Cómo postular: En el sitio de Clara: https://fintech.us.com/r/cmv06lppp00yvmab58h4u6v8k

## Descripción

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**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.

We are looking for a **Staff Engineer** to provide senior individual-contributor technical leadership at Clara. This is an organization-level IC role: you shape architecture, raise engineering standards across pods, and multiply impact through design, code, and mentorship - **not** a people-manager position.

### The Role

You are a builder and a technical authority beyond a single pod. You still write production code regularly, but your scope is cross-team: systems that span services, shared platforms, and hard technical bets that unlock multiple product areas.

**This is a builder's role first.** You are expected to ship code, lead by example in reviews and design docs, and leave clearer systems behind you - not only facilitate meetings.

#### What You Own

- **Cross-team architecture** - Drive system design for initiatives that cut across pods (APIs, data models, event flows, reliability patterns). Hold a high bar on coherence, operability, and long-term cost.
- **Engineering excellence** - Set and model standards for code quality, testing (TDD/BDD), observability, and secure design. Influence through RFCs, architecture reviews, and pairing - not through reporting lines.
- **Technical strategy** - Partner with Engineering Directors, Pod Leads, and Product on sequencing, tech debt, and platform investments. Make trade-offs explicit and documented.
- **Mentorship & leveling-up** - Grow Senior and Mid engineers via design reviews, deep pairing, and hiring signal. You provide strong input on technical fit; managers own career and performance outcomes.
- **Incident and reliability leadership** - Lead or co-lead response and remediation for high-severity incidents on systems you influence; drive durable fixes, not band-aids.
- **Hands-on delivery** - Author meaningful PRs. Staff at Clara is not an architecture-only title.

#### What You Don't Own

- 1:1s, performance ratings, compensation, or PIPs - those belong to Engineering Managers / Directors.
- Day-to-day sprint facilitation for a single pod (unless temporarily embedded); Pod Engineering Leads own pod execution rhythm.

### Technical Skills

- 8+ years of professional software engineering, including substantial time as a Senior / Lead IC on complex systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one of:
  - **Backend:** Java (Spring / Spring Boot), microservices, scalable system design, PostgreSQL/MySQL and NoSQL data modeling, event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar), REST APIs, AWS, containers (Docker/Kubernetes).
  - **Frontend:** Production React + TypeScript at scale, component architecture, performance, testing (Jest, RTL, Cypress/Playwright), build/CI tooling.
- Ability to work and reason **full-stack** even if your depth is on one side: read the whole path from data model to API to UI.
- Proven experience designing for high availability, security, and operability in production.
- Strong testing culture (unit, integration, contract) and familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
- Track record of written technical design that non-authors can challenge and execute against.

### Soft Skills

- Demonstrated influence **without** formal authority - across teams and stakeholders.
- Clear communication of trade-offs to Product, Design, and leadership.
- Product mindset: you engage roadmaps and feasibility, not only tickets.
- Intellectual honesty: change direction when evidence demands it.
- Mentorship instincts; you leave teams stronger than you found them.
- Strong English; Spanish is a plus for LATAM collaboration.

### Nice-to-Have

- Experience in financial applications, payments, or regulated LATAM markets.
- Prior Staff / Principal / Staff-equivalent title, or org-wide Tech Lead scope.
- Platform or developer-experience investments (shared libraries, internal tools, AI-assisted engineering workflows).
- Deep AWS (EKS, RDS, MSK, etc.) or security posture work (auth, supply chain).

### Where we work

This is a remote-first role: you'll work from home day to day. You'll ramp up in person with the team, and come together in person for team moments, events and customer visits through the year.

### Why Clara

- **A high talent-density team** driven to make an impact in Latin America - low ego, high ownership.
- Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
- An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
- English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.

### How we work

- **Clarity** - Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.
- **Simplicity** - If it can be simpler, it should be.
- **Ownership** - We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.
- **Pride** - We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.
- **ABC (Always Be Changing)** - We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.
- **Inclusivity** - Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.

If you meet the must-haves, apply - the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.

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