Staff Software Engineer – Remote First (Fully Remote)

Clara; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Clara is seeking a senior payments systems engineer to own end-to-end delivery of critical initiatives across Brazilian payment rails and beyond. You will frame problems, design scalable solutions, and shepherd production deployments in a fast-moving fintech environment.

You will architect money-movement systems with idempotency, ledger, and reconciliation, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and event streaming.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering payments systems and fintech platforms.
• Experience in money movement domains and payments rails.
• Ability to design scalable, idempotent architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of critical payments initiatives, from framing problems to running production solutions across Brazilian payment rails.
• Architect and design systems for money movement with idempotency, ledger, and reconciliation, using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and event streaming.
• Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, and set technical direction for payments domains with AI-native workflow integration.

Skills

Mentorship

Java

Spring Boot

Event streaming

Architecture

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

AI-native workflows

Job description

• Own end-to-end delivery of critical payments initiatives, from framing problems to running production solutions across Brazilian payment rails.
• Architect and design systems for money movement with idempotency, ledger, and reconciliation, using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and event streaming.
• Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, and set technical direction for payments domains with AI-native workflow integration.