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 **** 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 General, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.
We're looking for an exceptional
Engineering Director
to help lead and scale our engineering organization as we build the next generation of financial technology that empowers and increases the competitiveness of Latin American organizations.
This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines
strong technical judgment, people leadership, platform and systems-scale thinking, and business acumen
. You will lead multiple engineering teams, develop engineering leaders and IC builders, shape our technical strategy, and ensure we continue to increase our execution velocity while maintaining the reliability, security, and quality expected from a regulated fintech platform.
You will also play an important role in how we leverage
AI across our products and engineering organization
, helping us identify opportunities to improve customer experiences, automate complex workflows, and increase engineering productivity.
We're looking for someone who thrives in a
high-growth, fast-moving environment
, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and can move naturally between strategy, technology, people, and direct execution.
What you'll do
Recruit, lead and scale engineering teams.




Lead multiple teams building a high-performance culture based on ownership, collaboration, speed, and technical excellence.
Develop exceptional builders.
Coach and grow senior engineers while strengthening our leadership pipeline and raising the talent bar across the organization.
Shape our engineering strategy.
Partner with Product and business leaders to translate company priorities into a clear technical strategy and engineering roadmap.
Drive execution at scale.
Ensure teams consistently deliver high-impact products while balancing speed, quality, reliability, and long-term technical investments.
Raise the technical bar.
Provide leadership across architecture, scalability, reliability, security, observability, and engineering practices. You won't need to be the primary individual contributor, but you should be technically deep enough to challenge assumptions and earn the trust of senior engineers.
Build for fintech-grade reliability.
Ensure our systems meet the security, availability, data integrity, and auditability expectations of a financial technology platform.
Be at the cutting edge of AI-native.
Identify and drive opportunities to leverage AI across our products and engineering workflows. Help establish strong practices around AI evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, reliability, and responsible deployment.
Partner across the business.




Work closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to make thoughtful decisions and translate technical trade-offs into clear business implications.
Build for the next stage of growth.
Anticipate technical and organizational bottlenecks and evolve our architecture, processes, and team structure before they become constraints.
What we're looking for
10+ years of software engineering experience
and systems thinking, with significant experience building and operating complex production systems.
5+ years of engineering leadership experience
, ideally recruiting and leading multiple teams in parallel.
Proven experience building and scaling
high-performing engineering organizations
in fast-growing technology companies.
Strong technical foundation in
distributed systems, cloud architectures, APIs, microservices, data systems, and event-driven architectures
.
Experience designing and operating
high-scale, highly available systems
.
Strong understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and engineering best practices translated to an AI-first approach.
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to attract, coach, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, make thoughtful trade-offs, and adapt quickly as priorities evolve.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Professional fluency in
English
.
Our current technology ecosystem includes
Java/Spring Boot, React, relational and NoSQL da

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