Staff AI Software Engineer
Role Overview
This senior/staff-level role builds AI-native foundations, developer tooling, reusable workflows, and guardrails that help Kueski's engineering and product teams use AI agents at scale. You will evolve existing services and data platforms, own retrieval and knowledge-representation layers, and ship production agentic systems with evaluation and compliance controls. The position offers high organizational leverage, shaping standards across multiple teams in a regulated fintech environment.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote role at a mission-driven fintech, with the chance to set technical direction across multiple teams rather than just execute tickets. Expect strong career growth through Staff+ scope, cross-functional collaboration, and mentorship opportunities, plus a culture recognized for inclusion and ethical practices. The role likely involves collaboration with teams in Latin America, so some overlap with Mexico time zones is probable.
Full Job Description
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 nearly 30% 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 workplace. Our commitment to excellence and ethical business practices has earned us multiple industry recognitions. In 2024, we were named one of the World’s Top FinTech Companies by CNBC and recognized as one of the most ethical companies in Mexico by AMITAI. Additionally, we were certified as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality by HRC Equidad MX 2025 and ranked among the Best Companies for Female Talent by EFY.
Position
Kueski is seeking a Staff AI Software Engineer to join the AI Enabling Team.
This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who will build harnesses, developer tools, reusable workflows, and guardrails that enable Engineering and Product teams to use AI agents effectively at scale.
Job Requirements
Experience building and shipping AI products, combined with a strong perspective on transforming legacy organizations into AI-native ones.
10+ years building software, with several spent designing and shipping ML/AI systems in production at scale.
Strong systems and software engineering fundamentals.
A track record of Staff+ technical influence, setting direction that multiple teams follow, and being trusted to make high-ambiguity calls with incomplete information.
Sharp judgment on the build/buy/fine-tune/prompt spectrum, and the discipline to optimize for outcomes and cost.
Clear communicator who can align engineers, PMs, and risk/compliance stakeholders — and give a direct technical opinion when it matters.
Key Responsabilities
AI-Native Foundations
We're not starting from a blank page, you'll evolve Kueski's existing services, data platforms, and pipelines into systems that AI agents and models can operate on safely and effectively. Decide what to wrap, refactor, expose, or retire to make our infrastructure legible and actionable to AI, and sequence that transformation without a rewrite-the-world reset.
Make Kueski's knowledge (code, data, business logic, docs, and operational state) structured and retrievable so LLMs and agents can reason reliably over our real systems. Own the retrieval, memory, and knowledge-representation layer that turns scattered institutional context into something models can actually use.
AI-Native Engineering Workflows
Redefine how we build (specs, code, review, testing, deployment) around agentic engineering workflows. Set the standards, tooling, and guardrails that make AI a default part of the development lifecycle rather than a side experiment.
Production Systems, Evaluation & Guardrails
Design and ship the agentic systems behind our internal workflows, and take at least one high-stakes AI capability all the way to production, proving the impact with data.
Establish the eval harnesses, observability, and safety/compliance guardrails that make AI trustworthy in a regulated lending environment: PII handling, model risk, and auditability.
Organizational Leverage
Build reusable platforms and reference implementations, raise the engineering org's AI-native fluency through direct collaboration and mentorship, and turn one-off wins into self-sustaining capability.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
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