Senior Backend Engineer (with Frontend Competency) - LATAM (Remote) at Clara
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Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role on a payments-focused team at a Latin American B2B fintech. The work centers on designing and maintaining Java/Spring Boot services that connect to payment processors and financial networks, while also contributing to React-based frontends and internal tooling. The position suits an experienced distributed-systems engineer comfortable with microservices, event-driven architectures, and incorporating AI tools into daily development workflows.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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This role is based in Latin America (Clara operates across the region with offices in Mexico, Brazil, and other LatAm countries); no US location is mentioned. The US-based flag is set to false accordingly, and no CBSA is applicable.
The posting describes a hybrid work model but does not permit fully remote work.
Kafka and RabbitMQ are listed together as examples of event-driven messaging — Kafka is named first with RabbitMQ as an alternative.
GitHub Actions is the only CI/CD tool explicitly named; the broader CI/CD practice is also required.
AI tool fluency (Claude, Copilot, Devin, n8n) is listed under Must Haves as an 'AI-Native Mindset'; the specific tools are examples of what satisfies the requirement.
Fintech domain knowledge (Pix, payment gateways, ledger systems) and security/compliance experience (PCI-DSS, encryption, tokenization) appear under 'Nice to haves / Pluses' and are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are disclosed. Stock options (ESOP) and an annual learning budget are mentioned as benefits.
The role is full-stack in practice (React frontend required), but the posting explicitly frames backend as the primary specialization, supporting the Software Developers SOC.
This role's work location reads as outside the US — the candidate pool, comp, and contention benchmarks here are US-only (BLS employment, Adzuna/USAJOBS demand, and certified H-1B wages), so treat them as a rough US reference, not a local market.
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