Senior Backend Engineer, Frontend Competency

🕒 July 8

💃 Latin America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Clara

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201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

Fintech • B2B

Clara is the leading end-to-end corporate spend management solution for companies in Latin America. Their platform includes locally-issued corporate cards, Bill Pay, financing solutions, and a software platform highly rated by numerous successful companies in the region. Recognized for its inclusive culture and values, Clara has attained a unicorn valuation and has been featured in LinkedIn's Top Startups 2021 ranking.

📋 Description

• Architect Core Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain highly secure, resilient backend services in Java/Spring Boot that interface with payment processors and local financial networks across Latin America. • Optimize Data & Performance: Ensure high-availability and asynchronous processing of transaction financial data, keeping system latency low and success rates high. • Bridge to the Frontend: Develop and maintain the React-based frontend applications, dashboards, and internal tooling that interact with your backend services, ensuring deep integration and clean API consumption. • Leverage AI: Use AI tools to automate repetitive engineering workflows, accelerate delivery, and close skill gaps — from scaffolding new banking integrations to generating and reviewing code. • Lead & Mentor: Set the technical bar through backend code reviews, robust system design reviews, and hands-on mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers. • Own System Observability: Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing across the full stack to quickly isolate and fail-gracefully when external financial APIs experience downtime.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a heavy specialization in Backend/Systems development within a Fullstack or Distributed Systems context. • Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring ecosystem. Deep understanding of relational databases, concurrency, microservices architecture, and building APIs that scale gracefully. • 2+ years of practical commercial experience with React and its modern ecosystem (Hooks, state management). You don't need to be a CSS pixel-perfect designer, but you must be fully confident in building, structuring, and optimizing responsive web apps. • Proven experience designing and consuming RESTful and event-driven web services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ). • Strong practices in TDD, integration testing (JUnit, Mockito), and frontend testing, alongside automated deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions). • Demonstrated use of AI tools throughout the development process (design, coding, debugging). Experience using tools like Claude, Copilot, Devin, or workflow automation like n8n is highly valued. • Working proficiency in English and comfort collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Operations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one • Multicultural team with daily exposure to Portuguese, Spanish, and English (our corporate language) • Annual learning budget and internal accelerated development paths • High-ownership environment: we move fast, learn fast, and raise the bar — together • Smart, ambitious teammates — low ego, high impact • Flexible vacation and hybrid work model focused on results