Tech Lead — Users & Auth (Líder Técnico/a - Usuarios y Autenticación) - Mexico City (Hybrid)

The role

You will be the senior technical authority for the Users & Auth team, focusing on authentication, authorization, identity, and access control. This is a hands-on builder role where you set technical direction and work with product on definitions and priorities.

What you will do

• Owning architecture and system design including tech stack, API contracts, data models, and infrastructure
• Staying hands-on writing code
• Owning the team's execution rhythm including sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, and retros
• Being accountable for velocity, PR cycle time, deploy frequency, and healthy WIP
• Setting and holding engineering excellence through code review standards, test coverage, and technical debt management
• Unblocking the team through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, and debugging
• Owning product specs from a technical lens to flag feasibility gaps and complexity
• Owning system health for owned services including security posture, scalability, performance, and availability

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Track record as the senior technical voice on a team (Staff+ level)
• Strong architecture and system-design judgment
• Strong product sense
• Full-stack engineering with strength on the backend
• Working knowledge of auth, identity, and security best practices
• English proficiency

Nice to have

• Depth in Java and Spring on the backend
• Depth in React on the frontend
• Auth0 exposure

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options (ESOP) from day one
• Annual learning budget
• Accelerated development paths

About the company

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. It is a team of ~400 people backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs.