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About the Role
Kita is seeking a founding engineer to lead infrastructure, deployment architecture, and security for AI systems serving banks and financial institutions in emerging markets. This role requires an exceptional engineer comfortable designing cloud-native systems, managing production infrastructure, and deploying software within highly regulated enterprise environments. The founding engineer will build the technical foundation for Kita’s products to operate in high-trust, high-stakes settings, ensuring secure and scalable infrastructure, supporting enterprise environments, and meeting institutional requirements for reliability, auditability, data governance, and deployment flexibility.
Responsibilities
- Design and run the infrastructure behind our AI systems
- Deploy our product across cloud, VPC, and on-prem environments
- Build and maintain core systems: CI/CD, monitoring, access control
- Ensure systems are reliable, secure, and production-ready
- Work with customers to get deployments running in real environments
- Help define how we handle security, data, and deployments as we scale
Requirements
- 3+ years building and operating backend or infrastructure systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Strong understanding of systems, networking, and production environments
- Ability to work independently and own projects end-to-end
- Willing to travel and work directly with customers
- Experience in regulated industries (e.g. financial services)
- Experience with VPC, hybrid, or on-prem deployments
- Familiarity with security or compliance standards
Work Type
- Forward-deployed
About the Company
- In emerging markets, credit infrastructure is broken. Credit bureaus are unreliable, open finance is limited, and most financial data lives in messy documents. As a result, millions of individuals and businesses are locked out of credit because lenders can’t properly assess them.
- Kita is building the infrastructure to fix this. We turn messy financial documents into structured, fraud-checked signals that lenders use to make underwriting decisions.
- We work with customers ranging from fintechs to enterprise banks, and build closely with them on the ground — during the YC batch, we spent time in Manila, Singapore, Jakarta, and Mexico City.
- We’re a Stanford AI team backed by Y Combinator, top funds, and leading angels across Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia. During the YC batch, we grew ~40% week-over-week with customers across three continents. Our CTO was ranked #1 in Stanford CS in 2025.