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Clara is a fast-growing B2B fintech company in Latin America, providing spend management solutions including corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a B2B platform serving over 20,000 businesses. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Kaszek, Monashees, Coatue, DST Global, and others.
We are seeking an exceptional Engineering Director to lead and scale our engineering organization as we build the next generation of financial technology. This is a senior leadership role combining strong technical judgment, people leadership, platform and systems-scale thinking, and business acumen.
Key Responsibilities:
- Recruit, lead, and scale multiple engineering teams, building a high-performance culture based on ownership, collaboration, speed, and technical excellence
- Develop exceptional builders by coaching senior engineers and strengthening the leadership pipeline
- Shape engineering strategy in partnership with Product and business leaders, translating company priorities into clear technical roadmaps
- Drive execution at scale, ensuring teams consistently deliver high-impact products while balancing speed, quality, reliability, and long-term technical investments
- Raise the technical bar across architecture, scalability, reliability, security, observability, and engineering practices
- Build for fintech-grade reliability, ensuring systems meet security, availability, data integrity, and auditability expectations
- Identify and drive opportunities to leverage AI across products and engineering workflows, establishing strong practices around AI evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, and responsible deployment
- Partner across the business with Product, Design, Data, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Operations
- Anticipate technical and organizational bottlenecks and evolve architecture, processes, and team structure proactively
The role operates in a hybrid model with flexibility, though you are expected to spend time at the office organically and be present most days during ramp-up or when required by leadership.
Technology Stack: Java/Spring Boot, React, relational and NoSQL databases, Kafka, REST APIs, AWS, Git/GitHub, and modern CI/CD tooling.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with systems thinking and 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
- Strong product and business judgment, connecting 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
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Professional fluency in English
- Understanding of how modern AI can be translated into reliable products and meaningful engineering leverage; experience with LLMs, AI-powered products, agentic systems, AI evaluation, guardrails, or AI-assisted engineering workflows is highly valuable
Nice to Have:
- Experience in fintech, payments, lending, banking, cards, expense management, or financial infrastructure
- Experience building technology in regulated environments
- Experience scaling engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth
- Experience building or operating AI/ML-enabled products or platforms
- Experience with fraud, risk, credit, decisioning, or automation systems
- Spanish and/or Portuguese proficiency
