Sr. Software Engineer (Python / Django / AWS)

We are Kuona (kuona.ai), an AI technology company that empowers consumer products and retailers to live up to their revenue goals and empowers our clients to maximize their sales and profitability through the dynamic optimization of prices, promotions, and inventories. Our AI-powered platform helps top brands like Coca-Cola and Oxxo maximize their profits and optimize inventories. We are looking for people who are world-class, curious, innovative, bright, and work to be better every single day!

We are currently looking for a solution-oriented Sr. Software Engineer to join our fast-paced innovative team of engineers tackling challenging architecture problems and collaborating across teams to develop reliable, scalable solutions that power the way B2B clients grow their revenue. As part of the product development team, you will work with a multidisciplinary team to drive and evolve our analytics solutions and data systems. You will greatly contribute to analytics decision-making, analysis, and data integration to enable Kuona to become a world-class data-driven organization.

• This position is hybrid.

• Must have previous experience with "long-running tasks" and performance improvements in the backend.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review code and collaborate on pull requests from your team members

• Lead or participate in implementing key projects that contribute to the companys OKRs.

• Identify and optimize API endpoint performance bottlenecks that affect user workflows

• Implement user experiences as interactive components

• Write application code using React and Modern CSS practices with great attention to detail, testing, and documentation

• Coordinate with developers to implement UI elements into the overall application architecture

• Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications.

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems.

• Constantly learn and improve your technical skills by reading code, and documentation, running experiments, and talking to your colleagues

• Provide mentorship to other engineers through code reviews and architecture reviews.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree ideally in Computer Science or a related discipline

• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.

• 5+ years of Python experience

• 3+ years of Django experience

• 2+ years of AWS experience

• 4+ years of integration and continuous deployment experience

• Experience building complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers

• Attention to detail and the ability to think critically and solve problems using analytical and quantitative methodologies

• Analytical and Problem-Solving skills

• Teamwork and Leadership skills

• English spoken and written

Your experience with Kuona:

• Creativity: We like that all team members can propose and create new features

• Self-management: Since we are a very horizontal company, we require that team members can decide for themselves what to work on and define priorities

• Opportunities to learn: We offer all our employees a wide opportunity to learn things that you probably wouldn't be exposed to in a corporate environment.

• High Impact: You will be involved in the growth and evolution of the company, all your contributions will be of high impact on the overall results.

• We value our culture: We are fully committed to prioritizing great results for our clients and an amazing employee experience for our people.

• Ability to work anywhere / Flexibility: We provide everyone the opportunity to design your day and execute your projects with flexibility and focus on your well-being.

Benefits:

• Competitive base compensation

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Flexible time off and 12 holidays

• Work from-home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs

• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team

Our process:

This is our basic process, we may add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.

• Introductory screening call with someone from our recruiting team.

• Interview loop with additional team members, with the following panel:

  • Technical interview for the role + Test Project

  • Industry knowledge and management experience

  • Culture fit and behavioral interview with our CEO

• Reference Checks

• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer.

Kuona provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.