Staff Engineer (Ingeniero Staff) - Remote First
Core
Provide senior individual-contributor technical leadership by shaping cross-team architecture, raising engineering standards, and shipping production code to support Clara's spend management platform.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Senior IC)
Builds
Cross-team systems, shared platforms, and scalable backend/frontend services for corporate cards, bill pay, and B2B payments.
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Latin America
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Java (Spring Boot), microservices, PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, event-driven architectures (Kafka), React + TypeScript, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), TDD/BDD, system design, incident response
Preferred skills
Financial applications experience, prior Staff/Principal title, platform/developer-experience investments, deep AWS security posture work
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
Responsibilities
Drive system design for cross-pod initiatives; set and model standards for code quality, testing, and observability; partner on technical strategy and tech debt; mentor Senior and Mid engineers; lead high-severity incident response; author meaningful production PRs
Seniority
Staff, organization-level IC