# Senior Backend Engineer — Risk

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective-and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others. Senior Backend Engineer - Risk Risk is the team that builds the systems behind Clara's credit decisions, making them fast, accurate, and automated across all our markets. We own the risk decisioning infrastructure and underwriting automation, from assessing new businesses to managing their limits over time, as well as fraud prevention. Much of it runs on the credit bureaus, data providers, and decisioning platform we integrate with, each with its own APIs, formats, and quirks. We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead technical initiatives within the team. You'll design the services that turn i

- **Id**: 4115093
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clara-senior-backend-engineer-risk>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bogotá, Colombia, Mexico City, Mexico, São Paulo, Brazil
- **Countries**: CO, MX, BR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T19:36:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:02:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4611
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Business & SME Lending, Procurement & Spend Management

## Company

- **Id**: 57887
- **Name**: Clara
- **Domain**: clara.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clara-com>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.381
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 68
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T00:02:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T01:33:40Z

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