Sr Backend Engineer: AI Capabilities
Kavak
About Kavak
We are the technology company that is revolutionizing the buying and selling of used cars in Latin America since 2016. After 7 years of operation, Kavak has become the most valued technology startup in Latin America, formalizing the used car market, with operations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Türkiye, Chile and Middle East. Currently, we are looking for new talents who are passionate about challenges and hungry to create solutions that positively impact the lives of millions of people with safe, fair and accessible options to acquire the car of their dreams. Our mission is to empower people's lives through access to a car. We unleash the power of a car so people can simply enjoy the ride.
Our team is the number one priority. We like to imagine the impossible and work together to achieve it. We are disruptive, proactive, loyal and ambitious.
About Our Core AI Team
We are a central team developing AI capabilities that redefine how and revolutionize the car buying and selling experience. By collaborating closely with business and operations teams, we ensure faster integration and deliver real-world impact. We take on challenging problems in the fast-moving AI landscape.
About this role
This is an individual contributor role. You will wear many hats(Generalist). We need someone who is strong in backend and infrastructure engineering and willing to explore new AI technologies.
What will you do?
- Building core AI capabilities to enhance our products and integrate with key systems.
- Building developer tools/practices with a focus on improving the current way of working as well as productivity of the team
- Developing observability and monitoring capabilities for AI systems.
- Drive new methodologies for improved Software Engineering and Productivity experience.
What are we looking for?
- 5+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, writing maintainable application code
- Experience in cloud-native architecture and a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructural primitives.
- Experience with at least one Cloud provider (AWS preferred) (2+ yr)
- 2+ years developing and deploying APIs with Python and Go.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, job queues, messaging systems.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with APIs interacting with LLMs is a plus.
If you are passionate about disruption coupled with excellent execution, if you love challenges and making data-driven decisions and are mission-oriented,
KAVAK is the place for you!
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