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title: 'Platform Engineer at Kiwi Financial Inc'
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last_seen: '2026-09-10'
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# Platform Engineer at Kiwi Financial Inc

- **Company:** Kiwi Financial Inc
- **Location:** Argentina
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kiwi/eeff367b-4fe7-4613-99b8-4efb391cddd5

## Job description

## About the Role

We're looking for a Platform Engineer to help us scale and strengthen our cloud infrastructure, reliability, security, and deployment processes. You'll work closely with backend, data, and product engineering teams to improve system performance, automate operations, optimize cloud resources, and ensure high availability across our services. This is a hands-on senior role for someone who enjoys ownership, solving complex infrastructure challenges, and building scalable cloud-native environments. Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, containers, observability, Cloudflare, and modern infrastructure practices is essential.

Location: Remote — Colombia, Mexico or Argentina

## What You'll Do

- Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
- Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure using ECS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Build and maintain containerized environments using Docker and orchestration platforms such as ECS or Kubernetes.
- Monitor infrastructure health, application performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across production environments.
- Improve database reliability and performance for PostgreSQL and MySQL environments.
- Implement and maintain observability solutions, logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Enhance platform security and performance using Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, DNS, DDoS protection).
- Support and optimize deployments on Vercel and modern frontend hosting platforms.
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools and automation to improve infrastructure operations, monitoring, and developer productivity.
- Document processes, standards, and infrastructure decisions while continuously proposing improvements.

## What We're Looking For

- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services: ECS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies.
- Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL administration and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with Cloudflare services and security best practices.
- Familiarity with Vercel and frontend deployment workflows.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus).
- Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- Strong ownership mindset and problem-solving skills.
- Intermediate English communication skills/ Fluent in spanish (written and spoken).

## Nice to Have

- Experience in fintech or high-availability production environments.
- Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
- AWS certifications.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation.
- Knowledge of Redis, Snowflake, or distributed systems architectures.

## What We Offer

- Opportunity to work on high-impact fintech products used by thousands of users.
- Modern cloud-native infrastructure and engineering practices.
- AI-driven engineering culture focused on automation and operational excellence.
- 100% remote role — open to candidates in Colombia or Argentina.
- Collaboration with a strong multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Exposure to modern infrastructure, scalability, observability, and cloud technologies.

## About Kiwi Financial Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kiwi Financial (Kiwi) is a digital fintech platform that provides personal loans and credit-building tools specifically designed for U.S. Hispanic consumers with limited or no credit history.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Series A + debt facilities)
- **Headquarters**: San Juan, Puerto Rico (with additional offices in New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Mariano Sanz and Alexander Schachter

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer Finance / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C – U.S. Hispanic consumers who are underbanked or have thin credit files
- **Mission**: To empower Latinos by providing tools and resources to establish credit, access capital, and save money.

## Products & Services
- **[Kiwi Personal Loans]**: Unsecured personal loans up to $3,000 with flexible installment payments. The application and account management are 100% digital. Payments are reported to all three major credit bureaus (TransUnion, Experian, Equifax), helping customers build credit history. The platform uses 256-bit SSL encryption for security. [kiwicredito.com](https://www.kiwicredito.com/en)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$190.93M**, including a $100M credit facility from Community Investment Management (CIM) closed in November 2025, a $7.8M Series A co-led by LIP Ventures Boutique and Advent-Morro Equity Partners in June 2025, and earlier seed rounds totaling $8M. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/kiwi-financial)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Community Investment Management (CIM), Advent-Morro Equity Partners, Neer Venture Partners, Independent Capital, Invariantes Fund, LIP Ventures Boutique.
- **Growth Signals**: Served over **100,000 consumers** to date; headcount grew **+20.7% YoY** (conflicting reports: LinkedIn shows ~59 employees, Built In shows 101); expanding into additional U.S. states; planning to launch new products (savings, spending tools); partnership with CIM signals strong institutional confidence. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kiwi-credito) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kiwi-kiwicreditocom)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus**: Exclusively targets the U.S. Latino market, which represents nearly 20% of the U.S. population and contributes over $4 trillion to the economy annually, yet remains vastly underserved by mainstream banks.
- **AI-driven underwriting**: Uses alternative data and AI to evaluate creditworthiness for consumers with no traditional credit history, enabling approvals where others decline.
- **Credit building**: Reports loan payments to all three credit bureaus, directly helping customers establish a credit score while accessing capital.
- **Proven playbook**: Founders adapted successful credit-building models from emerging markets (Dominican Republic) to the U.S. Hispanic demographic.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Entering new U.S. states to reach more underserved communities.
- **Product expansion**: Building a full financial platform beyond loans – including savings and spending tools – to deepen customer engagement and economic mobility.
- **AI infrastructure**: Scaling AI capabilities to improve underwriting, customer experience, and operational efficiency (evidenced by active hiring for Senior AI Platform Engineer roles). [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kiwi)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to work on financial inclusion for a fast-growing, underserved demographic with tangible social impact.
- **Remote-friendly**: Offers remote work options with physical offices in New York, NY (onsite) and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Employees are distributed across 8 countries (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, etc.).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on AI, platform engineering, and data science; active hiring for senior technical roles (Senior Platform Engineer, Senior AI Platform Engineer).
- **Growth trajectory**: Young company (founded 2020) with strong funding, rapid headcount growth, and clear product roadmap – ideal for those seeking high-impact roles in a scaling fintech.
- **Diverse team**: Multicultural workforce with leadership from Dominican Republic, Argentina, and Puerto Rico; talent sourced from companies like Mercado Libre, Scotiabank, and Platzi.

## Sources
1. [kiwicredito.com](https://www.kiwicredito.com/en) – Company website (product details, mission)
2. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/kiwi-financial) – Funding history, headquarters, investors
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/kiwi-kiwicreditocom) – Careers, culture, headcount, office locations
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kiwi-credito) – Employee count, growth, recent hires, locations
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kiwi) – Active job postings (Senior AI Platform Engineer, etc.)

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