Engineering Director

Responsibilities

• Recruit, lead and scale engineering teams.
• Lead multiple teams building a high-performance culture based on ownership, collaboration, speed, and technical excellence.
• Develop exceptional builders.
• Coach and grow senior engineers while strengthening our leadership pipeline and raising the talent bar across the organization.
• Shape our engineering strategy.
• Partner with Product and business leaders to translate company priorities into a clear technical strategy and engineering roadmap.
• Drive execution at scale.
• Ensure teams consistently deliver high-impact products while balancing speed, quality, reliability, and long-term technical investments.
• Raise the technical bar.
• Provide leadership across architecture, scalability, reliability, security, observability, and engineering practices. You won't need to be the primary individual contributor, but you should be technically deep enough to challenge assumptions and earn the trust of senior engineers.
• Build for fintech-grade reliability.
• Ensure our systems meet the security, availability, data integrity, and auditability expectations of a financial technology platform.
• Be at the cutting edge of AI-native.
• Identify and drive opportunities to leverage AI across our products and engineering workflows. Help establish strong practices around AI evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, reliability, and responsible deployment.
• Partner across the business.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to make thoughtful decisions and translate technical trade-offs into clear business implications.
• Build for the next stage of growth.
• Anticipate technical and organizational bottlenecks and evolve our architecture, processes, and team structure before they become constraints.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• and systems thinking, with significant experience building and operating complex production systems.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience
• 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 translated to an AI-first approach.
• Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect 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 as priorities evolve.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

• fintech, payments, lending, banking, cards, expense management, or financial infrastructure
• AI/ML-enabled products or platforms
• Experience with fraud, risk, credit, decisioning, or automation systems.

What we’re looking for

• , 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
• Professional fluency in

English

Our current technology ecosystem includes

Java/Spring Boot, React, relational and NoSQL databases, Kafka, REST APIs, AWS, Git/GitHub, and modern CI/CD tooling. You don't need to be an expert in every technology—we care more about your ability to lead teams building complex systems and make excellent technical decisions.

AI experience

You don't need to be an ML researcher, but you should understand 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.

Experience in

• Experience building technology in regulated environments.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth.

Experience building or operating

Spanish and/or Portuguese proficiency.

Why this role matters

Engineering is at the core of how we build and scale our business.

As Engineering Director, you will have the opportunity to shape not only our technology, but also how our engineering organization operates, how we develop our people, and how we use AI to build better products and move faster

This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the next stage of our growth and help build the technology and engineering organization that will take us there.

Where we work

This is a hybrid role: you'll split your time between the office, customers and home. We don't set a minimum number of office days for most roles — you'll spend time in the office naturally, and most days during your ramp-up or when your leader asks.

Why Clara

• A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership.
• Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
• An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
• English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.

How we work

Clarity

— Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.

Simplicity

— If it can be simpler, it should be.

Ownership

— We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.

Pride

— We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.

ABC (Always Be Changing)

— We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.

Inclusivity

• Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.
• If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.