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# Senior Software Engineer, Custom Apps and AI Agents at Cuesta Partners

- **Company:** Cuesta Partners
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $150k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cuesta-partners/d84881ce-05ea-49cb-abe9-f49023db1738

## Job description

Why join Cuesta's Custom Apps and AI Agents team? Cuesta is standing up a new team that builds custom data apps and AI agents for mid-market companies. You will be one of its founding engineers. That means real ownership: you will help choose the tools we build with, define how an AI-native team should work, and see your software running in a client's business within weeks. Every custom app and agent you build changes what happens in the real world for the mid-market businesses we serve.

What you'll do:

- Sit with clients and your Cuesta team to explore how the business runs and scope the right solution, then design and build software that changes how the work gets done.
- Own solutions end to end: discovery, system design, code, deployment, and iteration in production.
- Demo a working solution in under a week, and ship to production in weeks.
- Build custom AI agents and LLM features with Cuesta's solution architects and data engineers, connecting to client data, tools, and workflows.
- Engineer with Claude Code or whatever comes next, and write the playbook for how our team uses them.
- Deploy and run apps on AWS, Azure, Vercel, and similar platforms, using Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code where they fit, with production-grade reliability and security.
- Turn what we learn on each engagement into reusable components that make the next build faster.
- Shape our stack, our process, and our hiring as the team grows.

What you'll bring: You are a builder who wants to own the whole problem, not a ticket. You move fast, you are energized by new tools, and you can explain a technical tradeoff to a client executive in plain language. You are excited about how AI is changing software engineering, and you want to be at an organization that is embracing that change.

Minimum qualifications:

- 6+ years building and shipping production software.
- Daily, hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code.
- Strong modern web development fundamentals, and excitement to work in some of these technologies: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Postgres, Docker, LangChain, and LangSmith.
- Experience deploying and operating production apps on AWS, Azure, GCP, Vercel, or similar, and familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
- Comfort exploring and scoping ambiguous problems with clients and teammates, and turning them into working systems.

How you'll grow:

- Within 1 month: Get to know our clients, partners, and toolchain, and ship your first change to a demo or live client solution.
- Within 3 months: Work with an existing client team to implement a client solution, lead the build of a client demo end to end, and propose the team's standard stack and AI-native workflow.
- Within 6 months: Deliver a production app or agent for a client, and publish reusable components the team builds on.
- Within 12 months: Act as a technical lead across engagements, help hire and train new engineers, and own a core part of how Cuesta builds.

Benefits: What you’ll gain! At Cuesta, we value entrepreneurship, humility, diversity, learning, speed, and balance. We provide our team members with:

- Claude Max Plan.
- Flexible working location and enabling personal-life harmony with work.
- Agency and influence in the company’s total strategy and direction. Own the product not the feature.
- Collaboration with a high-performing team.
- Competitive base salary (outlined in this listing) and target bonus of 15-25%.
- 401k, healthcare benefits, paid time-off, and more!

## About Cuesta Partners

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cuesta Partners is a technology strategy consulting firm that helps mid-market organizations navigate complex transformations, from M&A and AI implementation to data strategy and core technology modernization.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/self-funded, no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available (remote-first organization)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Riley Scott (quoted as founder figure on the careers page)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technology strategy consulting, M&A advisory, AI and data strategy
- **Target customers**: Mid-market companies, organizations of various sizes across industries (B2B, enterprise)
- **Mission**: To turn technology into a true catalyst for growth and competitive advantage, helping clients move from ambition to outcomes with clarity and speed.

## Products & Services
- **Technology Strategy**: Helping CIOs and CTOs define clear, actionable strategies aligned with business priorities, covering software systems, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operating models, and AI.
- **Data Strategy & Execution**: Building data infrastructure, governance, and analytics to turn raw data into trusted, business-ready intelligence. Includes master data management, margin analytics, and resource demand analytics.
- **AI Strategy & Execution**: Identifying high-impact AI use cases, prototyping, and scaling solutions with clear ROI, using proprietary methods to evaluate AI and data maturity.
- **Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory**: Full lifecycle support including product/tech diligence, cybersecurity, post-merger integration, and AI readiness to unlock hidden value in deals.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (no revenue or funding figures disclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring for multiple remote roles (Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, etc.) with a focus on Latin America, indicating expansion. Client case studies show measurable results (e.g., $10K monthly labor cost reduction, $1M annual profit improvement for a $1.5B logistics provider).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Business-first, tech-smart approach**: Strategy grounded in business goals, not technology for its own sake.
- **Flat, non-hierarchical team structure**: Diversity of thought and experience; everyone teaches and learns, from newest hire to most senior.
- **Value-led delivery**: Co-creates with clients, stays engaged until value is realized, and focuses on measurable ROI.
- **Proprietary AI and data maturity evaluation methods**: Accelerates diligence and integration in M&A and transformation projects.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI readiness and implementation**: Helping clients define and scale AI strategies grounded in technical feasibility and high-value use cases.
- **Data foundation modernization**: Building scalable, cloud-ready data environments to enable real-time insight and innovation.
- **M&A value creation**: Turning acquisitions into platforms for scalable growth through deep technical and commercial diligence.
- **Expanding talent pool**: Hiring remote talent across Latin America to support growing client demand.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: "We’re Where You Work. Not Where You Live." Fully remote positions with a focus on work-life balance.
- **Generous PTO**: Encouraged up to 5 weeks of paid time off annually, with a minimum of 2 weeks; managers ensure time off is taken.
- **Competitive benefits**: Competitive salary, continuous education support, leading parental leave with flexible return options, full health care and ancillary insurance, plus 7 company holidays and 3 floating holidays.
- **Flat, learning-oriented culture**: Everyone is both teacher and student; autonomy to create your own path; emphasis on humility, entrepreneurship, speed, and diversity.
- **Growth opportunities**: Ability to lead and learn at every career stage; mentorship and exposure to diverse technologies and industries.

## Sources
1. [cuestapartners.com](https://www.cuestapartners.com/) – Main site overview of services and approach
2. [cuestapartners.com/about](https://www.cuestapartners.com/about-2/) – About page with mission and team structure
3. [cuestapartners.com/careers](https://www.cuestapartners.com/careers-2/) – Careers page with benefits, culture, and founder quote
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cuesta-partners](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cuesta-partners) – Current job listings
5. [cuestapartners.rippling-ats.com](https://cuestapartners.rippling-ats.com/jobs) – Additional job listings showing remote roles in Latin America

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