Tech Lead — Users & Auth (Liderança Técnica - Usuários e Autenticação) - São Paulo (Hybrid)

The role

This Tech Lead will act as the senior technical authority for the Users & Auth team. You will lead by building, setting technical direction, and owning architecture, system design, and execution rhythm for authentication, authorization, identity, and access control systems.

What you will do

• Own architecture and system design including tech stack, API contracts, data models, and infrastructure
• Stay hands-on writing code
• Own the team's execution rhythm including sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, and retros
• Be accountable for velocity including PR cycle time, deploy frequency, and healthy WIP
• Set and hold engineering excellence through code review standards, test coverage, and technical debt management
• Unblock the team through code reviews, design reviews, pairing, and debugging
• Own product specs from a technical lens by reviewing feasibility and complexity
• Own 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 in a complex domain
• Strong product sense
• Full-stack engineering with strength on the backend
• Working knowledge of auth, identity, and security best practices
• English proficiency with the ability to lead technical discussions across geographies

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 a platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage payment operations. It is a team of ~400 people backed by several investment firms.