AI Engineer
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 this role
Are you curious, creative, and passionate about working with AI? Are you excited about constant learning and using cutting-edge technology? At Kavak, we're looking for an AI Engineer to join our team.
We're looking for a senior backend engineer with a foundation in Python and who has developed scalable APIs or highly robust services. You don't need to have worked with LLMs or AI, but you should be someone with a hunger for learning, who experiments, breaks things, fixes things, learns, and improves quickly.
What will you do?
- Design, develop, optimize, and monitor AI products at scale for customers
- Manage LLMs, prompts, and agents, ensuring that agents correctly use Kavak microservices and perform their duties
- Improve the customer experience and quality of service
- Drive best practices and new knowledge within the team
- Experiment with state-of-the-art models, architectures, and frameworks
What are we looking for?
- +3 years of experience in backend development
- Experience handling SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience developing RESTful APIs
- Proficiency in Python
- Basic knowledge of Docker
- Experience in event-driven architectures
- Plus: Knowledge of React and AWS, Knowledge of React for front-end development, experience developing APIs that interact with LLMs, experience using tools like Kubernetes
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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