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Overview

Kavak is a used car marketplace headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, and founded in 2016 by Carlos Garcia Ottati, Loreanne Garcia, and Roger Laughlin. The company buys, reconditions, and resells second hand vehicles with inspection reports, warranties, and in-house financing through its Kavak Capital arm. It operates reconditioning centres and delivery hubs across Latin America and expanded into Turkey and the Middle East.

News

News kavak.run 3 months ago
kavak studio - choose a language
Choose a language, load its compiler as WebAssembly, and keep a separate local workspace for each language in kavak studio.
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News International Business Times 4 years ago
Mexican Used-car Startup Kavak Expands Outside Latin America
Mexican used-car platform Kavak is investing $180 million to open offices and make its platform available in four new countries, including Turkey - its first location outside Latin America, the
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News Nearshore Americas 5 years ago
Kavak Raises $485 Million, Increasing Valuations to $4 Billion
Mexican startup Kavak has raised US$485 million in a new round of fundraising, increasing its valuation to a staggering $4 billion.
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News TechCrunch 5 years ago
Mexican unicorn Kavak raises a $485M Series D at a $4B valuation
Kavak, the Mexican startup that's disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kavak over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
58
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Python37%
Java32%
TypeScript32%
JavaScript32%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js21%
Angular11%
FastAPI11%
Spring Boot11%
Databases
PostgreSQL11%
Amazon Redshift5%
Delta Lake5%
Redis5%
Cloud & platforms
AWS32%
GitLab11%
Kubernetes11%
.NET5%
AI & ML
Claude21%
LLM11%
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Full Kavak tech stack 58 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
11
2 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
37 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
47% ▲
Product
20% ▲
Leadership
13%
AI/ML
7% ▲
Data Science
7% ▼
Frontend
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added React Native to stack Oct 2026
Added Tableau to stack Oct 2026
Added Scrum to stack Oct 2026
Added Notion to stack Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack Oct 2026
Added Linear to stack Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Oct 2026
Added GCP to stack Oct 2026
Added Apache Kafka to stack Oct 2026
Added RAG to stack Sep 2026
Added LangChain to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Mexico City
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Mexico City Mexico
HQ
9 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 11% remote 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Backend, Product, AI/ML
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Buenos Aires Argentina
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
São Paulo Brazil
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Leadership
seen since Jul 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $50k – $144k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • São Paulo
Go
JavaScript
Java
React.js
Mobile
React Native
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≈ $52k – $122k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • Buenos Aires
JavaScript
TypeScript
React.js
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Mexico City
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $50k – $111k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Mexico City
SQL
GCP
AWS
SLI/SLO/SLA
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
Management
Linear
Notion
Jira
Google Sheets
Scrum
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≈ $48k – $124k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Mexico City
Python
LangChain
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
Anthropic SDK
CrewAI
LLM
RAG
OCR
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≈ $63k – $135k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Mexico City
Java
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≈ $56k – $109k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Mexico City
Python
TypeScript
AWS
Apply
≈ $51k – $113k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Mexico City
A/B Testing
Apply
≈ $57k – $110k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • Mexico City
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
OCR
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
FinOps
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≈ $47k – $102k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Mexico) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Mexico City
Go
Java
Claude Code
DevOps
CI/CD
GitLab
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Financials

Total raised
$485M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Series D 2021 $485M $4B Details