About us:

We are a Y Combinator / Latitud backed consumer lending platform in Mexico led by talent from companies such as Capital One, Bain & Company, Konfio, DiDi, Clip, Klarna, etc. We are hyper focused on making sure that customers improve their financial lives significantly through their relationship with us. In a very short time, we have achieved significant traction with exceptional consumer outcomes and unit economics. We are also building and incorporating a significant amount of AI into our operations, so this is a great place to work for anybody who has ambitions to build real time applications of AI. Our goal is to build the biggest AI enabled consumer fintech platform in Mexico and eventually LatAm.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, motivate and manage our tech team while coding herself / himself. Our current team has built our full tech from scratch in very little time. Expectation would be 60-70% time on coding and the rest on team / project management
• Work closely with our Head of Growth and Head of Risk to brainstorm, develop and prioritize projects, while communicating effectively with the team and founders
• Communicate effectively with investors and tech vendors
• Make sure that we have a very high rate of development of product and tech infra
• Be able to maintain the balance between developing super fast but also keeping in mind how the tech infra will scale as we continue growing very fast
• Be able to talk to teams across functions and be able to explain technical things to them very simply

Essential skills:

• SQL Database Management: This is a key aspect of the position
• Experience with Microservices
• Solid Knowledge in JavaScript: All our code is in Node.js with Express for the backend, React for the frontend, and React Native for mobile
• Knowledge in Python: This is a plus but important, as they will work closely with the data team, and being able to help or understand what they do will be very useful
• Our current providers are google cloud, AWS (preference for experience in AWS as our goal is to migrate everything to this provider) and Heroku
• Good command over English and Spanish