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# Sr Fullstack Engineer (LATAM Remote) at UP.Labs

- **Company:** UP.Labs
- **Location:** Guadalajara, Mexico
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-06-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/up-labs/am9icG9zdDqUhHE1TgI9G-AsKHiPdSh1

## Job description

Overview: UP.Labs is a venture studio dedicated to building innovative startup companies from the ground up. We partner with leading corporations and entrepreneurs to identify major industry opportunities, validate new venture concepts, and launch new software and hardware companies. We’re seeking a Sr. Fullstack Engineer to help turn early product direction into real, working software. This role is best suited for someone who is comfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous environments where requirements, workflows, and technical architecture may still be forming. Many projects will begin with a business problem, rough product concept, or operational pain point rather than a fully defined technical specification. You should be able to take loosely defined requirements, determine a practical technical path forward, make sound assumptions where details are missing, and drive implementation without needing highly detailed tickets or step-by-step direction. You will work closely with venture builders, product, design, and engineering teams. Venture builders help define the opportunity and direction; this role is responsible for translating that direction into pragmatic technical plans, product experiences, and working software.

Technical Challenge You’ll build end-to-end product experiences across modern web applications, backend services, APIs, data models, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. The work will often involve validating early product concepts, building MVPs, creating internal tools, integrating third-party systems, and shipping usable software quickly. You’ll need to balance speed, quality, and maintainability while making practical tradeoffs based on where the venture is in its lifecycle. This is a highly collaborative role, but not a heavily prescribed one. You’ll be expected to bring technical judgment, ownership, and initiative to ambiguous engineering problems.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and ship fullstack product features using React, TypeScript, backend services, APIs, and relational databases
- Translate loosely defined product direction into practical technical plans and working software
- Build polished, usable frontend experiences while also owning the backend services and data models that support them
- Design and implement APIs, integrations, workflows, dashboards, and internal tools needed to validate early product concepts
- Make pragmatic architecture decisions that balance speed, reliability, maintainability, and future scalability
- Deploy and operate applications in cloud environments, primarily AWS
- Identify technical risks, product gaps, unclear requirements, and dependencies early, then propose practical paths forward
- Collaborate with venture builders, product, design, engineering, and stakeholders to clarify direction and move quickly from concept to implementation
- Operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment where priorities and requirements may evolve quickly

You should have:

- 7+ years of experience as a Fullstack Engineer or similar software engineering role
- Strong proficiency with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development
- Strong backend development experience building idempotent APIs and services, application logic, and data-backed workflows
- Solid working knowledge of Python or willingness to work in Python-based backend environments
- Proficiency with SQL, relational databases, and data modeling
- Hands-on experience with deploying and operating applications in an AWS environment
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools, custom agents, or automation workflows to accelerate software delivery, prototype solutions, improve code quality, and reduce repetitive engineering work
- Ability to work from incomplete requirements, make reasonable assumptions, and move work forward without waiting for fully detailed tickets
- Ability to work in fast paced startup environments with evolving requirements
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

Preferred Expertise:

- Experience building products from 0->1, MVP, or early-stage validation
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or similar tools
- Experience with with AI-enabled products, LLM integrations, or AI-assisted development workflows

UP.Labs Summary: UP.Labs builds high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. We partner with leading corporations and entrepreneurs to identify major industry opportunities, validate new venture concepts, and launch software and hardware companies from the ground up. Our team works at the earliest stage of company creation, where ideas are still forming, requirements are evolving, and technical validation is critical. We take ventures from concept through MVP and help recruit the full-time team that will scale the business. This environment requires people who are comfortable operating with ambiguity, making pragmatic technical decisions, and helping turn early product concepts into real, working systems.

Location: Remote

## About UP.Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: UP.Labs is a venture builder that partners with leading enterprises like Porsche, Alaska Airlines, and J.B. Hunt to co-create vertical AI startups that solve complex operational challenges in physical industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture builder/venture lab)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Monica, California, USA (Hangar 7, 3100 Donald Douglas Loop N, Santa Monica, CA 90405)
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed, but has been active since at least 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed as a single founder; the entity operates as a venture lab under the UP.Partners umbrella

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Venture building / Corporate venture foundry, focused on transportation, mobility, logistics, aviation, manufacturing, and energy
- Target customers: Large enterprises in physical industries (e.g., Porsche, Alaska Airlines, J.B. Hunt, Wabash National)
- Mission: To transform physical industry by building vertical AI startups that unlock massive operational gains and deliver real enterprise value — described as "the shortest road to a faster, cleaner, safer, and more accessible future"

## Products & Services
UP.Labs does not sell a single product; instead, it launches and incubates startups. Recent and notable portfolio ventures include:

- **AutoUnify**: A developer platform aiming to solve the automotive industry data divide (launched with Porsche, described as "the Plaid of automotive retail") [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/up-labs-porsches-newest-startup-wants-to-be-the-plaid-of-automotive-retail/)
- **Odysee**: An AI-enabled startup focused on schedule optimization for airlines (launched with Alaska Airlines) [talkbusiness.net](https://talkbusiness.net/2024/11/04/leaders-highlight-programs-to-help-startups-boost-innovation/)
- **Stealth AI Manufacturing Planning Startup**: Currently being built with Wabash National to modernize transportation manufacturing with AI-powered tools [morningstar.com](https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/202504221000/wabash-and-up-labs-to-modernize-transportation-manufacturing-with-ai-powered-tools)
- **Stealth AI Freight Operations Startup**: Being built with J.B. Hunt to create logistics startups [talkbusiness.net](https://talkbusiness.net/2024/11/04/leaders-highlight-programs-to-help-startups-boost-innovation/)
- **Stealth AI Industrial Commerce Startup**: Currently in development

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private entity)
- **Key Metric**: 72 employees as of mid-2025, with 27% year-over-year headcount growth [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/up-labs)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Porsche, Alaska Airlines, J.B. Hunt, Wabash National (corporate partners); operates with UP.Ventures as the capital arm
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 27% YoY headcount growth (+20 people)
  - 2.5% monthly LinkedIn follower growth, 31.8% yearly
  - Active job postings up 200% monthly and 350% quarterly
  - 8 industry-specific venture labs operating across Los Angeles and Silicon Valley
  - Workforce distributed across 9 countries (US, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, Philippines, UK, Chile)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique venture model**: UP.Labs doesn't just invest — it co-creates startups with enterprise partners who are also the first customers, ensuring immediate market fit and a built-in acquisition path
- **Enterprise access**: Partners like Porsche, Alaska Airlines, and J.B. Hunt provide real-world operational problems, data, and distribution channels
- **Vertical AI focus**: Purpose-built AI solutions for physical industries (logistics, manufacturing, aviation, energy) — a space with high barriers to entry and massive operational impact
- **Talent density**: Attracts proven entrepreneurs, product leaders, and technologists; alumni go to top firms like McKinsey, BCG, Amazon, and Stanford GSB
- **Proven exit model**: Corporate partners acquire matured startups, creating a clear liquidity path

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the venture lab model**: Expanding from 8 labs across two hubs (LA and Silicon Valley) into more industries and geographies
- **Deepen enterprise partnerships**: Working with the world's leading organizations to compound innovation
- **Build vertical AI startups**: Focus on agentic AI, computer vision, and data intelligence for physical operations
- **Global talent expansion**: Active hiring across LATAM (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay) for senior engineering roles, with a focus on building remote-first teams
- **Recent hires**: Appointed elite founders to lead the next wave of enterprise AI startups (announced August 2025) [morningstar.com](https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/202508211000/meet-the-builders-up-labs-appoints-elite-founders-to-lead-its-next-wave-of-enterprise-ai-startups)

## Why Work Here
- **Impact at scale**: Engineers work on AI-native startups solving real problems in logistics, aviation, manufacturing, and energy — not just chatbots or CRUD apps
- **Remote-first culture**: Many roles are fully remote, especially for LATAM-based engineers (no relocation required)
- **Global, distributed team**: Workforce spans 9 countries; strong presence in LATAM (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay) with dedicated LATAM remote roles
- **Senior-level focus**: Roles are described as "not support roles" but the technical layer behind AI-native companies; 100% retention reported for the initial remote LATAM team [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/up-labs)
- **Compensation**: USD-denominated salaries for LATAM roles, plus paid time off, hardware setup, and career development paths
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on "the best engineering problems in the US right now are inside physical industries" — appeals to builders who want hard technical challenges
- **Hybrid options**: Some roles in Santa Monica (HQ) offer hybrid flexibility; roles like Portfolio Platform Lead and Head of Engineering are hybrid in LA
- **Growth trajectory**: 27% YoY headcount growth, active hiring across engineering, data science, AI/ML, and business roles

## Sources
1. [uplabs.com](https://uplabs.com/subscribe)
2. [jobs.gem.com/up-labs](https://jobs.gem.com/up-labs)
3. [linkedin.com/company/up-labs](https://linkedin.com/company/up-labs)
4. [careers.up.partners](https://careers.up.partners/jobs/up-labs?jobTypes=Engineer)
5. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/up-labs-porsches-newest-startup-wants-to-be-the-plaid-of-automotive-retail/)
6. [talkbusiness.net](https://talkbusiness.net/2024/11/04/leaders-highlight-programs-to-help-startups-boost-innovation/)
7. [morningstar.com](https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/202508211000/meet-the-builders-up-labs-appoints-elite-founders-to-lead-its-next-wave-of-enterprise-ai-startups)
8. [morningstar.com](https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/202504221000/wabash-and-up-labs-to-modernize-transportation-manufacturing-with-ai-powered-tools)

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