4 hours ago
São Paulo, Brazil +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive cross-team architecture for initiatives spanning pods, services, APIs, data models, event flows, and reliability patterns.
- Set and model standards for code quality, testing, observability, secure design, and operability through RFCs, architecture reviews, pairing, and technical leadership.
- Partner with Engineering Directors, Pod Leads, and Product on technical strategy, sequencing, technical debt, and platform investments.
- Write production code and author meaningful pull requests as a hands-on technical leader.
- Mentor Senior and Mid engineers through design reviews, deep pairing, and technical guidance.
- Lead or co-lead response and durable remediation for high-severity incidents affecting systems within the role’s influence.
- Communicate technical trade-offs and produce written designs that teams can challenge and execute against.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience as a Senior or Lead individual contributor on complex systems.
- Deep expertise in backend technologies such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, or frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.
- Ability to reason across the full stack from data model through API to user interface.
- Proven experience designing highly available, secure, and operable production systems.
- Strong experience with unit, integration, and contract testing and familiarity with CI/CD using GitHub Actions.
- Demonstrated influence without formal authority, clear communication, product judgment, intellectual honesty, and mentoring ability.
- Strong English communication skills; Spanish is a plus.
- Experience in financial applications, payments, or regulated Latin American markets is preferred.
- Prior Staff, Principal, Staff-equivalent, or organization-wide Tech Lead experience is preferred.
- Experience with platform or developer-experience investments, shared libraries, internal tools, AI-assisted engineering workflows, deep AWS usage, or security posture work is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options through ESOP from day one.
- Annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
- Remote-first/hybrid work with time split between the office, customers, and home; there is no minimum number of office days for most roles, though office time is expected during ramp-up or when requested by the leader.
- English is the working language, with Spanish and Portuguese used daily.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSCypressDockerGitHub ActionsJavaJestKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLReactSpring BootTypeScript
About Clara
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.