--- title: 'Software Engineer in Test (SDET) (Ingeniero de Software en Pruebas) - Remote First at Clara' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-in-test-sdet-ingeniero-de-software-en-pruebas-remote-first-a157nqyn1k9a' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Software Engineer in Test (SDET) (Ingeniero de Software en Pruebas) - Remote First at Clara - **Company:** Clara - **Location:** Bogota, Colombia / Mexico City, Mexico / Sao Paulo, Brazil - **Posted:** 2026-10-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clara/jobs/5257408007 ## Job description 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. We are looking for a Fullstack/Backend Engineer focused on QA Automation — a software engineer who builds the infrastructure, frameworks, APIs, and tooling that make automated quality possible at Clara. This is an engineering craft role (closer to SDET / SET / platform engineer than classic manual QA): you write production-grade code that enables pods and QA to generate, run, and trust automated tests. ## The Role You build and maintain the systems behind Clara's QA platform: Playwright-based frameworks, services and APIs that support test execution and reporting, CI wiring, and internal tools (e.g. test case / run persistence on Clara's React/Next stack). You collaborate with the QA Automation Lead, Pod Leads, and product engineers so automation is reusable, agent-ready, and owned as real software — not a pile of brittle scripts. ## What You Own - Automation infrastructure — Design and implement shared frameworks and libraries for web/API automation (Playwright preferred), with stable selectors, modular architecture, and clear extension points for pods. - Tooling & services — Build backend APIs and fullstack components that store test cases, record run results, expose reports, and integrate with delivery workflows (e.g. Linear webhooks, Slack notifications, GitHub Actions). - Enablement for AI-assisted QA — Structure frameworks and contracts so agents and CLIs can generate and execute specs reliably (ticket → matrix → runnable tests → evidence). - CI/CD for quality — Implement and harden pipelines for smoke and regression suites; reduce flakiness; make failures diagnosable. - Engineering quality of test code — Treat automation as a first-class codebase: reviews, tests for helpers, versioning, documentation, and refactoring for maintainability. - Partnership — Work with QA engineers on adoption and with product engineers on testability (APIs, data-testid / ARIA, environments, test data hooks). What Distinguishes This Role - Stronger software engineering depth than a traditional QA Engineer JD (services, APIs, data models, frontend for internal tools). - Focused on enabling automation at scale — not owning all manual exploratory testing for every pod. Technical Skills - 4+ years of software development experience (backend and/or fullstack), with demonstrable automation or developer-tooling delivery. - Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript for Playwright (or equivalent E2E frameworks) and willingness to work in Clara's backend stack (Java / Spring Boot) where services or integrations require it. - Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks (web and API); understanding of the test pyramid and when to prefer API vs UI coverage. - Backend fundamentals: REST APIs, relational databases, authentication basics, and clean service boundaries. - Fullstack comfort for internal tools: React / Next.js (or similar) for dashboards and test-management UIs is a strong fit with Clara's internal scaffold direction. - CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or similar), Docker familiarity, and Git-based collaboration. - Ability to debug flaky tests, environment issues, and integration failures systematically. Soft Skills - Builder mindset: you ship frameworks and tools that other engineers adopt. - Clear documentation and communication with QA and product engineering partners. - Comfortable with ambiguity and iterating from working prototypes to reliable platform pieces. - Collaborative code review habits; you raise the bar on test-code quality. - Good English (written and verbal); Spanish is a plus. Nice-to-Have - Prior SDET / SET / Test Infrastructure Engineer experience. - Mobile automation (Appium) or BrowserStack. - Workflow orchestration (n8n), Linear/GitHub API integrations, or AI/agent tooling for test generation. - AWS and observability basics for running automation reliably in shared environments. - Fintech / payments domain exposure. - Experience replacing external test-management tools with internal systems. Where we work This is a remote-first role: you'll work from home day to day. You'll ramp up in person with the team, and come together in person for team moments, events and customer visits through the year. ## Why Clara - A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership. - Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one. - An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths. - English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day. ## How we work - Clarity — Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters. - Simplicity — If it can be simpler, it should be. - Ownership — We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait. - Pride — We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver. - ABC (Always Be Changing) — We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning. - Inclusivity — Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara. If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement. ## About Clara ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Clara is the leading corporate payments and spend management platform in Latin America, providing companies with corporate cards, bill payments, cross-border transfers, and AI-powered expense management. - **Entity Type**: Private (Debt-II stage; total funding of $770M) - **Headquarters**: São Paulo, Brazil (Rua Doutor Renato Paes de Barros, 33, Itaim Bibi) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Fintech / Corporate Payments & Spend Management - **Target customers**: B2B; mid-market to enterprise companies across Latin America (30,000+ companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia) - **Mission or purpose**: To build world-class financial infrastructure for Latin America, enabling businesses to scale without borders. ## Products & Services - **Corporate Credit Cards**: Global and local cards with customizable limits, controls, and real-time oversight for team spending. - **Bill Pay & Cross-Border Payments**: Automated vendor payments and cross-border transfers. - **Expense Management Platform**: AI-powered expense reporting, approvals, compliance, and receipt matching (Smart Match). - **TravelPay**: Virtual cards and tracking for all travel-related payments, preventing unauthorized charges. - **Reimbursements**: Fast, automated reimbursement flows for out-of-pocket spend. - **Clara Intelligence™**: Real-time analytics and AI-driven insights that centralize and analyze all company spend. - **Integrations**: Direct integrations with leading ERPs (Oracle NetSuite, SAP Concur, Zoho Expense, ARGO Solutions). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $770M (including debt); most recent round was Debt-II raised 5 months ago (as of mid-2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: monashees, Kaszek, Canary, Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, Goldman Sachs - **Growth Signals**: Named LatAm’s fastest-growing company by the Financial Times in both 2025 and 2026; serves 30,000+ companies across Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil; raised $80M in sales growth funding (per Bloomberg); expanding Brazil operations "quickly" (per Reuters) ## Competitive Advantages - **Regional focus**: Purpose-built for Latin America, solving local pain points (cross-border payments, local card issuance, tax optimization) that global competitors often miss. - **AI-powered platform**: Clara Intelligence™ provides real-time spend analytics and automated receipt matching, saving customers an average of 4.6M hours of work and +30% in tax deductions. - **Scale & trust**: Trusted by 30,000+ industry leaders; named LatAm’s fastest-growing company by the Financial Times (2025, 2026). - **Enterprise-grade security**: ISO 27001 and PCI DSS 4.0 certified. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic expansion**: Deepening presence in Brazil (growing "quickly" per Reuters) and scaling across Mexico and Colombia. - **Product breadth**: Continuing to build an all-in-one financial OS for LatAm businesses, including bill pay, cross-border payments, and AI-powered spend intelligence. - **Capital markets**: Recently raised $80M for sales growth (per Bloomberg) and additional debt financing to fuel expansion. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a place where people are "smart, own their work, and care deeply about the mission, and about each other." Values include Ownership, Simplicity, Pride, Clarity, Inclusivity, and "ABC (Always Be Changing)." - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Remote-first flexibility; some roles (e.g., Finance Analyst in São Paulo) are hybrid. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary, equity, health coverage, remote-first flexibility, learning and development budget, home office stipend, parental leave, and flexible PTO. - **Engineering culture**: High ownership from day one; work reaches 30,000+ companies across a region of 650 million people. Teams include Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Product, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Happiness. - **Growth opportunity**: Named LatAm’s fastest-growing company; employees get to "do the best work of their lives" at massive scale. ## Sources 1. [clara.com](https://www.clara.com/) 2. [clara.com/careers](https://www.clara.com/resources/careers) 3. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clara) 4. 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