DevOps Engineer III

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

• Infrastructure Engineering and CI/CD teams are responsible for enabling product Software Development teams to efficiently launch their services and applications into cloud environments while ensuring that Security and Architectural standards are met. They work closely with other engineers so they can properly understand and improve their workflows without burdening them with infrastructure details and compliance requirements.

• We’re looking for a Software Engineer with strong programming foundations who is passionate about infrastructure and Continuous Delivery, while highly aware of security requirements and best practices, having to constantly balance between empowering the rapid growth of a Startup and the demands of working in the Finance Sector.

Key Responsabilities

• 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 their practices

• Enjoys building products using different technologies, as well as scaling them up using cloud computing

• Supports the team to build medium to high complexity projects, that may involve multiple teams and iterations, and collaborates with the architect and the tech lead to make sure the solution is feasible and aligned with the technical vision

• 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 incidentsIdentify 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

• Learn and improve at the technologies, processes, and best practices defined by the team

• Write the necessary documentation

• Troubleshoot bugs and incidents

• Help the team triage the bugs and problems that arise

• Code reviewing

• Monitor the systems and services the team is responsible for

• Participate actively in the team’s ceremonies

• Prepare and conduct technical interviews

• Participate in early discussions for medium to complex projects

• Help the team break down complex projects into manageable pieces

Position Requirements

• Strong technical background in programmingUnderstanding of the elements of good code

• Experience and understanding of software design patternsFundamentals of relational databases

• Experience with at least one 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

Nice to have:

• Experience with microservice architecture

• Experience with Ruby

• Experience with Ruby on Rails

• Experience with AWS

Other skills:

• Familiar with agile principles

• Problem-solving

• Collaboration and teamwork

• Attention to detail

• Effective communication

• Critical thinking

• Leadership

• Mentorship

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.

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.