We’re Kuona (kuona.ai), an AI technology company that empowers consumer products and retailers to live up to their revenue goals and empowers our clients to maximize their sales and profitability through the dynamic optimization of prices, promotions, and inventories. Our AI-powered platform helps top brands like Coca-Cola, Heineken, and Nutrioli to maximize their profits and optimize inventories. We are looking for world-class, curious, innovative, bright people who work to be better every day!
We are currently looking for a solution-oriented Sr. Software Engineer to join our fast-paced innovative team of engineers tackling challenging architecture problems and collaborating across teams to develop reliable, scalable solutions that power the way B2B clients grow their revenue. As part of the product development team, you will work with the Data Science and Data team to drive and evolve our analytics solutions and data systems. You will greatly contribute to analytics decision-making, analysis, and data integration to enable Kuona to become a world-class data-driven organization.
This position is fully remote.
Must have previous experience with "long-running tasks" and performance improvements in the backend.
Key Responsibilities:
Review code and collaborate on pull requests from your team members
Lead or participate in implementing key projects that contribute to the company’s OKRs.
Identify and optimize API endpoint performance bottlenecks that affect user workflows
Implement user experiences as interactive components
Write application code using React and Modern CSS practices with great attention to detail, testing, and documentation
Coordinate with developers to implement UI elements into the overall application architecture
Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications.
Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems.
Constantly learn and improve your technical skills by reading code, and documentation, running experiments, and talking to your colleagues
Provide mentorship to other engineers through code reviews and architecture reviews.
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree ideally in Computer Science or a related discipline
5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
5+ years of Python experience
3+ years of Django experience
2+ years of AWS experience
4+ years of integration and continuous deployment experience
Experience building complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers
Attention to detail and the ability to think critically and solve problems using analytical and quantitative methodologies
Analytical and Problem-Solving skills
Teamwork and Leadership skills
English spoken and written
Your experience with Kuona:
Creativity: We like that all team members can propose and create new features
Self-management: Since we are a very horizontal company, we require that team members can decide for themselves what to work on and define priorities
Opportunities to learn: We offer all our employees a wide opportunity to learn things that you probably wouldn't be exposed to in a corporate environment.
High Impact: You will be involved in the growth and evolution of the company, all your contributions will be of high impact on the overall results.
We value our culture: We are fully committed to prioritizing great results for our clients and an amazing employee experience for our people.
Ability to work anywhere / Flexibility: We provide everyone the opportunity to design your day and execute your projects with flexibility and focus on your well-being.
Benefits:
Competitive base compensation
Health insurance
Life insurance
Flexible time off and 12 holidays
Work from-home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs
Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team
Our process:
This is our basic process, we may add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.
Introductory screening call with someone from our recruiting team.
Technical interview for the role + Test Project
Industry knowledge and management experience
Culture fit and behavioral interview with our CEO
Reference Checks
Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer.
Kuona provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
