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Clara is a fast-growing fintech company in Latin America providing payment solutions, corporate cards, bill pay, and financing for over 20,000 businesses. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Kaszek, Monashees, Coatue, and General Catalyst.
This is a Forward-Deployed Engineer role sitting at the intersection of Product Engineering and Go-To-Market teams. You'll be embedded directly with partners and customers to ship integrations rapidly, acting as the primary technical owner for every integration in your portfolio.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own the full integration lifecycle from qualification through handoff
- Conduct Phase 0 qualification assessments mapping systems, data flows, and risk surfaces
- Build and configure integration connectors, data mappings, and partner adapters using Clara's integration framework
- Coordinate directly with partner technical teams as the primary technical point of contact
- Ensure integrations meet Clara's standards: idempotency, observability, secrets management, data minimization, and sandbox testing
- Drive clean handoffs with runbooks, dashboards, on-call assignments, and support playbooks
- Feed learnings back into the platform to identify patterns for shared libraries
Required qualifications:
- 4+ years backend software development experience with API integrations, webhooks, and data mapping
- Deep fluency in integration patterns: REST, event-driven architectures, OAuth/token management, idempotency
- Strong proficiency in Java or other backend languages with comfort across multiple tech stacks
- Working knowledge of observability fundamentals: logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, SLOs
- Experience working directly with external partners/customers in technical capacity
- Ability to move fast in ambiguous environments
- Bilingual proficiency: English + Spanish/Portuguese
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences
Nice-to-haves include fintech/payments experience, PCI/PII compliance familiarity, AWS/Kafka exposure, and proficiency in all three languages (Portuguese, Spanish, English).
