Engineering Director: AI-Driven Fintech Scale Leader

Clara; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Stock options

Annual learning budget

Flexible vacation

Collaborative, inclusive culture

Job summary

Clara is seeking an Engineering Director to lead and scale our software organization as we build the next generation fintech platform in Latin America. You will recruit and grow multiple engineering teams, shape technical strategy, ensure reliability, security, and AI-driven product development, and partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, Risk, and Compliance.

This is a fast-moving role requiring deep technical judgment and strong leadership to translate business goals into scalable

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
• Proven track record leading multiple teams in fast-growth tech environments.
• Strong cloud, DevOps, and modern software engineering practices in AI-first contexts.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, lead and scale engineering teams.
• Develop leaders and grow senior engineers.
• Shape engineering strategy with product and business leaders.
• Drive scale, balance speed with quality and reliability.
• Ensure fintech-grade security and auditability.
• Lead AI-native initiatives across products and workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate trade-offs into business outcomes.
• Prepare the organization for next growth stage.

Skills

10+ years of software engineering,

5+ years of engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

APIs and microservices

Data systems and event-driven

Security and reliability

English fluency

Tools

Java/Spring Boot

React

Kafka

REST APIs

AWS

Git/GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Clara is seeking an Engineering Director to lead and scale our software organization as we build the next generation fintech platform in Latin America. You will recruit and grow multiple engineering teams, shape technical strategy, ensure reliability, security, and AI-driven product development, and partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, Risk, and Compliance.

This is a fast-moving role requiring deep technical judgment and strong leadership to translate business goals into scalable