Backend Engineer [Senior] (Ingeniero Senior de Backend) - Latin America (Remote)

Ready to accelerate your career? Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America. We've built the leading solution for companies to make and manage all their payments. We already help over 20,000 large and growing businesses operate with agility and financial clarity through locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform built for scale. Clara is backed by some of the most successful investors in the world, including top regional VCs like monashees, Kaszek, and Canary, and leading global funds like Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, and Goldman Sachs - in addition to dozens of angel investors and local family offices. We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region. We invite you to join us if you want to be part of a fast-paced environment that will accelerate your career and support you to do some of the best work of your life alongside a passionate and committed team distributed across the Americas. What you'll do We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead backend development initiatives within the Transactions Insights team. At Clara, you will go beyond coding; you’ll help shape technical direction and systems design while fostering engineering best practices that ensure the performance and scalability of backend systems supporting our core transaction processes. Your responsibilities will include: Leading backend design and implementation for high-impact internal systems and services. Collaborating across the full product lifecycle—from ideation to deployment—using Github and modern CI/CD workflows. Mentoring junior developers and upholding high engineering standards through rigorous code reviews and technical documentation. Writing scalable, testable code in Java with unit and integration testing built-in. Maintaining and evolving microservices within a modern architecture, ensuring seamless integration with internal and external systems via REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs. Participating in cross-team architectural discussions and problem-solving to tackle Clara’s most impactful challenges. Who you are “We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.” Must haves Working proficiency in English and Spanish or Portuguese. 5+ years of backend development experience with deep knowledge of software design principles. Proficiency in Java (minimum version 10; ideally version 17) and Spring Boot 3 . Experience with Hibernate/JPA, and relational/NoSQL databases. Strong understanding of microservices architecture and event-driven systems using Kafka . Experience integrating with third-party providers via REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs. Proficiency in Docker , Git, Github , and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS . Experience or interest in AI tools to automate workflows, such as N8N , ChatGPT, or Gemini. Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban). Nice to haves Experience working with multi-country stakeholders and remote teams. Exposure to infrastructure and monitoring tooling within cloud-native environments. Experience creating systems with a high volume of transactions (requests/responses). Independent analytical skills using spreadsheets or SQL . A good sense of humor. Why join Clara At Clara, you’ll have the autonomy, speed, and support to make meaningful impact — not just on your team, but on how organizations are run across Latin America. Who we are We’re the leading B2B fintech for spend management in Latin America. Certified as one of the world's fastest-growing companies, a Great Place to Work , and a LinkedIn Top Startup . Passionate about making Latin America more prosperous and competitive. Constantly innovating to bu ... (truncated, view full listing at source)