Tech Lead
Kavak
Tech Lead
Kavak
Buys and sells certified used cars online
About Kavak
As the first Mexican unicorn, with a presence in several countries and an AI-first business model, Kavak is redefining the used car market and the experience of millions of users in LatAm. We have been one of the most highly valued companies in the region and recently closed a USD $300M investment round led by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest investments they have made in Latin America. With this growth, we are excited to add people who will help us build the next chapter of our product and take our efforts to build with artificial intelligence to the next level.
We build with AI across our core operation: from conversational commerce, to generative marketing, to systems that extract insights from millions of interactions. We are a team that imagines the impossible, builds it, and lives disruption, proactivity, and ambition in a hypergrowth context.
About the role
As Tech Lead in our new development team in Brazil, you will build the technology that powers Kavak’s processes in the country. The Purchasing platform is already live and you will keep it running, develop the Sales platform, and make sure everything reaches production. You will also start Car Journey from scratch, with a focus on the customer lifecycle.
You will lead a team of 5 engineers across Brazil and Argentina, report to the Senior Engineering Manager, and stay hands-on. You will help develop/customize core services, create localized tools and bring our AI harness from Mexico to Brazil and build specialized agents that fulfill what each customer wants to do (buy, sell, get a loan, renegotiate), with a personalized agent for every customer.
Technical leadership and architecture
Team leadership
Product and business impact
Plus:
Kavak Talent Mindsets
Kavak runs an online platform and network of physical stores for buying and selling used cars, with a focus on certified, guaranteed vehicles. It uses data and technology to verify cars, streamline transactions, and reduce fraud, while offering financing options and after-sales services. Cars can be bought or sold through the website or mobile app, and Kavak operates its own reconditioning center to prepare vehicles for sale. The company earns money from car sales, financing, warranties/after-sales services, and other related fees across its international markets. Kavak differentiates itself by increasing transparency in the used-car market, providing certified cars, a trusted marketplace with financing, and a hybrid online-offline shopping experience, backed by a large reconditioning operation. Its goal is to formalize the used-car market, make transactions safer and easier for customers, and expand access to financing everywhere it operates.
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