Location:

Remote - Based in Argentina, Brazil, or Peru. Contract Type:

Independent contract, part-time and full-time available Compensation:

Based on leveling. Senior-level engineers (L5+) - $6,000-8,00 USD monthly retainer for full-time. Staff+ level engineers - $10,000-12,000 USD monthly retainer for full-time

About Futureproofing

Futureproofing builds

AI-native founding teams

for companies creating new products, launching new ventures, or transforming existing businesses around AI. Our engineers work alongside founders, product leaders, data scientists, and business teams from problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration. We're looking for builders who can take ownership of ambiguous problems and turn them into excellent production products—not engineers waiting for a perfectly defined ticket.

What You'll Do

Own AI products and features from

problem definition through production

Work directly with founders, executives, and subject-matter experts

Design and build systems using LLMs, agents, retrieval, structured data, APIs, and traditional software

Make thoughtful tradeoffs across

quality, evaluation, latency, cost, reliability, and complexity

Build evaluation and feedback loops that tell us whether AI systems are actually working

Move quickly from prototype to production without sacrificing engineering quality

Push back when a technical or product direction doesn't make sense—and explain why

Use AI deeply in your own engineering workflow while applying strong judgment and guardrails

What We're Looking For

5+ years of professional software engineering experience

Experience owning and shipping

real production products

Meaningful experience building AI-powered products in production





Strong Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript skills with comfort across the stack

Experience with modern AI architectures such as agents, tool use, RAG/retrieval, structured generation, and evaluation

Strong product judgment and comfort operating with significant autonomy

Clear communication with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Genuine curiosity about AI—you actively experiment with new tools and continuously evolve how you build

We especially value engineers with

0→1 experience , startup backgrounds, customer exposure, or ownership beyond a narrow technical specialty. You don't need to know everything. You do need to be

rigorous and deeply curious .

How We Work

Futureproofing is fully remote, with engineering talent primarily across Latin America and clients primarily in the United States. Engagements may be part-time or full-time, with some US working-hour overlap. You'll work closely with Futureproofing's engineering leadership while working on a dedicated client founding team.

What Makes Futureproofing Different

Small, senior teams.

We build teams around problems, not seats. Real ownership.

Engineers participate in architecture, product decisions, tradeoffs, and client conversations—not just implementation. Production AI.

We care about systems that survive contact with real users, data, and business constraints. AI-native engineering.

We expect our engineers to experiment constantly with how AI changes the way software is built. Intentional matching.

We get to know our engineers and clients deeply rather than matching through keywords. Developer-first.

We'd rather build a smaller network of exceptional engineers doing meaningful work than optimize for placement volume.

📌 Fullstack AI Software Engineer - LATAM (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Futureproofing
📍 Ciudad de México