Clara

Staff Software Engineer – Remote First

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4 hours ago
São Paulo, Brazil +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own payments initiatives end-to-end, from customer and operational discovery through production delivery.
  • Design architectures, service boundaries, data models, event flows, and consistency guarantees for money movement systems.
  • Set technical direction and roadmaps for Payments domains, including ledger, idempotency, and reconciliation patterns.
  • Build and operate backend systems with Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, event streaming, observability, and production-grade reliability.
  • Contribute hands-on to React and TypeScript interfaces covering pending, failed, reversed, and disputed payment states.
  • Lead design and code reviews, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers.
  • Use parallel AI agents for scaffolding, code generation, testing, specifications, debugging, and operations while enforcing review and data-protection guardrails.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations, Compliance, and engineering teams in English.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building robust production systems and owning architectures used by other engineers.
  • Deep hands-on fintech infrastructure experience in production, including Pix, digital accounts, boletos, and Open Finance payment flows.
  • Experience with Pix concepts including SPI/DICT, QR/BR Code, devolução, MED, limits, fraud controls, Pix Automático, or Pix parcelado.
  • Experience with digital-account onboarding, KYC/KYB, PLD-FT, ledger and balance modeling, holds, and blocks.
  • Experience with boletos, registradoras, CNAB 240 remessa/retorno, baixa, settlement, and reconciliation.
  • Production experience shipping Open Finance consents and payment-initiation flows.
  • Applied knowledge of idempotency, retries, outbox patterns, sagas, event-driven design, and consistency tradeoffs.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka or another message broker, plus tracing, metrics, SLOs, alerting, and operational runbooks.
  • Deep Java and Spring Boot expertise with strong PostgreSQL, API design, concurrency, and performance-tuning skills.
  • Hands-on React and TypeScript experience shipping production user interfaces.
  • Experience with Docker, Git, cloud platforms, and security and privacy practices including tokenization, PII/LGPD, and OAuth2/OIDC.
  • Ability to build systems from zero, demonstrate product judgment, communicate clearly, push back constructively, and work cross-functionally.
  • Professional English proficiency at B2 or higher.
  • Experience using AI across discovery, design, implementation, review, debugging, and operations, including guardrails, parallel agents, spec-driven prompting, and review evaluations.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement.
  • Competitive salary and stock options from day one.
  • Annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
  • English is the working language, with Spanish and Portuguese used daily.
  • High-ownership, inclusive team environment focused on impact in Latin America.
Clara

About Clara

501-1,000 employees

CLARA Analytics builds AI-driven software to help property and casualty insurers and self-insured organizations manage claims, reduce litigation risk, and improve provider selection and outcomes. Its products are sold on a subscription basis and integrate with existing claims systems to deliver triage, severity prediction, and workflow insights. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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