Software Engineer III (New products)

About Kueski

At Kueski, we're dedicated to improving the financial lives of people in Mexico. Since 2012, we've been the leading buy now, pay later (BNPL) and online consumer credit platform in Latin America, known for our innovative financial services. Our flagship product, Kueski Pay, provides seamless payment solutions for both online and in-store transactions, establishing itself as the preferred option for a quarter of Mexico's top e-commerce merchants. Notably, we were the first to introduce BNPL on Amazon Mexico.

We're a tech company with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration, and impact, fostering a strong, diverse, and inclusive company culture. In 2023, Kueski was recognized as the top BNPL platform by Fintech Breakthrough and earned the title of one of Mexico's most ethical companies from AMITAI. Additionally, we ranked as one of the Best Companies for Female Talent by EFY.

Purpose:

• We are looking for a Software Engineer who is excited about creating and supporting user-facing software products that customers want to use, and considering functional and non-functional requirements as well as user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• A Software Engineer passionate about mentoring and supporting other software engineers and is comfortable collaborating with different teams to accomplish their team's goals.
• A promoter of technical excellence and helps the team to thrive by constantly making informed decisions that consider tradeoffs, and pushing the team to follow and improve at their practices.
• Someone who enjoys building products using different technologies, as well as scaling them up using cloud computing.
• Supports the team in designing and building high-quality systems that may involve multiple teams and iterations. She collaborates with other teams to make sure the solution is feasible and aligned with the technical vision.
• Software Engineer responsible for collaborating with their team and supporting other team members to achieve the team’s goals while guaranteeing that the team is able to perform their development activities at all times. Also, they must deliver at the expectations quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Software Engineer with a good understanding the business so they can evaluate the trade-offs accordingly and make informed decisions. As well as identifying and promoting areas of improvement for deliverables, practices, and processes, such as identifying and prioritizing tech debt.
• Software Engineer eager to collaborating during the early analysis of a project, helping the team estimate medium to complex projects, and supporting the team in translating business requirements into technical requirements.

Position Requirements

• At least 8 years of progressive experience in software engineering
• Strong experience in Software Engineering in backend (GO or RUBY)
• Strong experience in Software Engineering in frontend (React )
• Strong experience in cloud technologies (AWS) 
• Experience in Microservices
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with APIs
• Ability to clearly communicate simple to complex ideas
• Ability to navigate uncertainty and help the team to find its way
• Ability to structure ideas and convey them
• Ability to translate technical language to non technical people
• Ability to transform requirements into working software in production.
• Ability to collaborate in an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to make decisions based on tradeoffs between business, product and technology.
• Ability to undertake and lead medium to complex projects that require multiple iterations and may involve different technologies.
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging problems.
• How a good Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is organized.
• How the non-functional requirements are part of delivering a solution.
• Experience on the different types of testing and their importance in the SDLC.
• Experience in account management and authentication.




Nice to have

• Experience with Mobile (FLUTTER)

Habitually

• Understand the underlying problem when facing a challenge.
• Design and implement solutions for the problems.
• Write software to achieve the business and team’s goals.
• Fix bugs and resolve incidents.
• Identify and communicate risks.
• Support and promote best practices among the team.
• Mentor and support other Software Engineers.
• Ensure the team remains focused on the objective of the project.

You’ll love working at Kueski because:

• We have a mission-driven culture focused on customer value, teamwork, humility, and integrity. 
• Everyone is expected to have role clarity, career growth, and a personal development plan. Feedback and recognition is embedded in our company processes, systems, and practices. 
• We ensure competitive salary, medical insurance, and wellbeing through ample and flexible time off as well as mental healthcare benefits. Everyone is an owner and eligible for competitive stock options with a company poised for success. 
• We´re committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and we know this leads to incredible work.

Kueski: Where talent excellence improves Mexican lives

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