Clera

Founding Engineer

São Paulo
Salary
$45,000 - $80,000 annually
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · São Paulo
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 4 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage fintech team as a founding engineer, building backend systems for financial integrations, workflow orchestration, and foundational ledger capabilities. You will work closely with company leaders and early customers to shape product direction, prototype solutions, and establish strong engineering practices.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and operate backend services and public APIs for customers and partners.
  • Develop integrations with financial systems, ERPs, banks, and document sources.
  • Build data ingestion and ETL pipelines with validation, quality controls, and reconciliation.
  • Establish observability and operational practices, including logs, metrics, alerts, incident response, and on-call readiness.
  • Collaborate with company leaders and customers to identify problems, prototype solutions, measure impact, and decide what to build or retire.
  • Use LLMs where they provide measurable value, with appropriate safeguards.
  • Document architectural decisions and improve engineering standards for testing and security.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of backend engineering experience delivering production systems end to end.
  • Strong experience with OLTP systems, relational data modeling, REST APIs, transactional data, and consistency and availability trade-offs.
  • Experience integrating complex external APIs, including authentication, rate limits, retries, and webhooks, ideally in financial or ERP systems.
  • Ability to extract, validate, and normalize data from unstructured sources such as PDFs, XML, and email.
  • Practical cloud and DevOps skills with AWS or GCP, Docker, CI/CD, and logging and monitoring.
  • Experience with event-driven systems, data pipelines, and reconciliation; familiarity with ledgers and double-entry accounting is valuable.
  • Familiarity with workflow tools such as Temporal, Airflow, or Prefect, and production LLM deployment with guardrails is a plus.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and close customer collaboration; fintech, B2B SaaS, or founding-engineer experience is beneficial.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $45,000 to $80,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid role based in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 181 open in Engineering. 115 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (87 of 181), TypeScript (86 of 181), React (74 of 181), Python (70 of 181), Machine Learning (43 of 181), Supabase (37 of 181), PostgreSQL (35 of 181)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted once since 28 October 2026: a posting for this role in São Paulo was taken down and the role was posted again.

  • 4 November 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 28 October 2026 – closed 3 November 2026

Salary context

46 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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