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Clara

Staff Software Engineer

Clara

. Own critical payments initiatives end-to-end, from framing the initial problem through production operation across Brazilian payment rails .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeSao Paulo • BrazilLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and maintaining fintech infrastructure, with a strong focus on payment systems, digital accounts, and compliance. Proficient in orchestrating AI-driven workflows and mentoring engineering teams to uphold high standards in system architecture and performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Fintech Infrastructure DevelopmentPix Payment Systems ExpertiseJava And Spring Boot ProficiencyKafka And Message Broker ExperienceCI/CD And Cloud Platforms Knowledge

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Hard Skills
Payments Systems ArchitectureIdempotency And Consistency TradeoffsPostgreSQL KnowledgeAPI DesignConcurrency And Performance TuningReact And TypeScript ExperienceSecurity And Privacy KnowledgeEvent-Driven DesignMetrics And AlertingAI-Native Workflow Implementation
Soft Skills
Strong Written CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationScope Management
Tools & Technologies
DockerGitAWSCI/CD ToolsKafka
Industry Keywords
KYC/KYBPLD-FTBoletosOpen FinanceTokenizationPII/LGPDOAuth2/OIDC

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDockerJavaKafkaPostgresReactRuby on RailsSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own critical payments initiatives end-to-end, from framing the initial problem through production operation across Brazilian payment rails
  • Talk to clients and internal Operations, review regulatory documents, reduce scope, write one-pagers, and determine what not to build
  • Define service boundaries, data models, event flows, and consistency guarantees for payment systems
  • Set technical roadmaps for Payments domains and establish reusable patterns for ledgers, idempotency, and reconciliation
  • Orchestrate multiple AI agents for scaffolding, code generation, testing, and specifications
  • Apply expert judgment to identify and correct AI-generated errors
  • Lead design and code reviews
  • Establish engineering standards
  • Mentor engineers who inherit the systems built
  • Build and maintain Clara's money movement infrastructure, including digital accounts, Pix, boletos, payouts, ledger, and reconciliation

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years building robust production systems
  • Deep, hands-on experience building fintech infrastructure in production
  • Pix experience: SPI/DICT, QR/BR Code, devolução and MED, limits and fraud controls, Pix Automático or parcelado
  • Digital Accounts experience: onboarding, KYC/KYB, PLD-FT, ledger and balance modeling, holds, and blocks
  • Boletos experience: Registradoras, CNAB 240 remessa/retorno, baixa, settlement, and reconciliation
  • Open Finance consents and payment initiation flows shipped to production
  • Track record of owning architectures that other engineers depend on
  • Applied knowledge of idempotency, retries, outbox patterns, sagas, event-driven design, and consistency tradeoffs
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka or other message brokers
  • Tracing, metrics, SLOs, alerting, and runbook writing
  • Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot
  • Solid PostgreSQL knowledge, API design, concurrency, and performance tuning
  • Hands-on experience with React and TypeScript
  • Experience shipping real payment UI states, including pending, failed, reversed, and disputed
  • Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Git, and cloud platforms; AWS preferred
  • Security and privacy knowledge, including tokenization, PII/LGPD, and OAuth2/OIDC
  • Experience building systems from zero and shipping user-focused features
  • Strong written communication and ability to create clear one-pagers
  • Comfortable pushing back on scope and priorities
  • AI-native workflow experience across discovery, design, implementation, review, debugging, and operations
  • Ability to explain an automated workflow, model failure, and guardrails
  • Experience with parallel agents, spec-driven prompting, and review evaluations
  • Ability to build guardrails such as excluding customer data from prompts and preventing unreviewed code in production
  • Professional English proficiency (B2+)
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Ops, Compliance, and Backend teams

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary
  • Stock options (ESOP) from day one
  • Annual learning budget
  • Accelerated development paths
  • English is the working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day
  • High talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America
  • Low-ego, high-ownership culture
  • Open and direct communication
  • Inclusive, diverse workplace
  • Flexible/adaptive culture emphasizing continuous learning