Software Engineer III (Backend-Profile)

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.

The Profile Team collaborates across the organization to ensure the accurate collection and management of all customer data documents and validations necessary for users to transact within the Kueski ecosystem. Our team is committed to providing a seamless and user-friendly experience for customers applying for loans.

Key Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate is passionate about mentoring and supporting other software engineers and is comfortable collaborating with different teams to accomplish their team's goals.

• She’s 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.

• She enjoys building products using different technologies as well as scaling them up using cloud computing.

• She 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 Engineers are 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 Engineers are responsible for 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 Engineers are responsible for 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

• Strong technical background in programming.

• Understanding of the elements of good code.

• Experience and understanding of software design patterns.

• Experience leading teams and mentoring software engineers with a focus on fostering growth and collaboration.

• Experience with at least one relational database engine.

• Experience in integrating designing and building APIs.

• Experience deploying and maintaining software products in production.

• Experience with at least one architectural pattern (i.e. MVC)

• Experience delivering solutions that require multiple iterations..

• Experience considering non-functional requirements from the very beginning of the design.

• Experience balancing business product and technology when making decisions.

• Ability to clearly communicate simple to complex ideas.

• Ability to navigate uncertainty and help the team 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.

• Experience with microservice architecture.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ruby and web development frameworks like Ruby on Rails Sinatra and Grape.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with AWS.

At Kueski we embrace diversity in all forms systematically promote equity and ensure everyone feels included with a sense of belonging. We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified candidates. As part of this commitment we will make efforts to ensure reasonable accommodations are made during the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed please let the Talent Acquisition team know.