Clara
Staff Engineer (Ingeniero Staff) - Remote First
Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia +5 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Bogota D.C. / DC / Colombia
Mexico City / CDMX / Mexico
Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil
Brasil
Colombia
Mexico - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering, including substantial time as a Senior / Lead IC on complex systems.
About the job
Provides organization-level individual-contributor technical leadership by designing cross-team systems, setting engineering standards, and regularly shipping production code.
What you'll do
- Drive architecture and technical strategy across teams, documenting trade-offs and platform investments.
- Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and security; mentor engineers through reviews and pairing.
- Contribute production code and lead or co-lead response and durable remediation for high-severity incidents on influenced systems.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering, including substantial time as a Senior / Lead IC on complex systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one listed backend or frontend area, and ability to reason full-stack.
- Production experience designing for high availability, security, and operability; strong testing culture and familiarity with CI/CD.
- Track record of written technical design and influencing across teams without formal authority; strong English.
Nice to have
- Experience in financial applications, payments, or regulated LATAM markets.
- Prior Staff / Principal / Staff-equivalent title or org-wide Tech Lead scope; platform, developer-experience, deep AWS, or security work.
Tools
Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Kafka, REST APIs, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, React + TypeScript
AI focus
Nice-to-have experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows.
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