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. 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.
Kueski is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own technical strategy across Kueski Pay, Kueski Cash, and the shared platforms behind them, reporting to the CTO. This role is adecuado for an engineer with strong architectural judgment and a track record of setting multi-year technical direction in environments with fintech-grade expectations for reliability, security, fraud prevention, and compliance.
As a key leader, you will translate company priorities into a coherent multi-year architecture, make trade-offs explicit, and define the strategy that makes Kueski an AI-native engineering organization.



You will raise the decision quality of Staff and Senior engineers and be accountable for ensuring Kueski's systems scale with the business.
Define the multi-year technical strategy across domains with the CTPO and engineering and product leadership.
Reduce systemic technical debt and recurring failures while improving throughput, using delivery and quality metrics (throughput, cycle time, CFR, MTTR) to guide roadmaps.
Define the AI-native SDLC and the context engineering standards that make Kueski's code, data, and business logic usable by models and agents.
Engineering Leadership & Influence
Set technical direction for the AI Enabling Team, and coach and sponsor Staff and Senior engineers.
Shape how Kueski hires and promotes senior engineering talent.
Communicate technical direction to executives and represent Kueski's engineering externally.
15+ years building software, with 4+ years at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical‐leadership scope across multiple teams.
~ Deep expertise in distributed systems, financial domain modeling (money movement, ledgering, identity), observability, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
~ A point of view, backed by results, on transforming a legacy engineering organization into an AI-native one.
~ Proven record of growing senior engineers into Staff‐level leaders.
~ Excellent written and spoken communication in English and Spanish.

We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified candidates.

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