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People
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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$3M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3M
Venture round · Apr 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
1
Eastward Capital Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
66 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 21, 2022 Partnership NELO Joins Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) in Efforts to Bring Wide-Scale Adoption to Gamers Around the World · Nasdaq Apr 16, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $3M · YahooFinance Nov 10, 2019 Released an app Nelo · App Store 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.14%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.6 ★
594 ratings
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2021 $3M — YahooFinance
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How Nelo hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Nelo scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 1

Visa details by country

Overview

Nelo is a Mexican fintech founded in 2019 and based in Mexico City. Its platform lets shoppers split purchases into instalments. The service is integrated with online and physical merchants.

News

Press release Nasdaq 4 years ago
NELO Joins Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) in Efforts to Bring Wide-Scale Adoption to Gamers Around the World
Singapore, Singapore--- NELO's goal is to reach gamers around the world and bring its products to a global market. They have since joined the Blockchain Game Alliance as a panel member of their partner program following their successful rebranding on the
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News YahooFinance 5 years ago
Nelo raises $3M to grow
Buy now, pay later is a way of paying for purchases via installment loans that generally have no interest. Enter Nelo, a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, which is building buy now, pay later in Mexico. With the latest capita
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Nelo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
76/100
Languages
SQL
Python
Go
Kotlin
Frameworks & libraries
React Native
React.js
Databases
Amazon Redshift
BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Presto
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Metabase
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Full Nelo tech stack 29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$187k
Typical range
$16k – $250k
Open positions
6
6 Jobs
Junior 16.7%
Senior 50%
Staff 33.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $16k $16k
Senior 3 $230k $92k – $230k
Staff 2 $197k $144k – $250k
Highest paying role Member of Technical Staff - Head of Fraud $250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Nelo By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
8
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
7 days
faster than 78% 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.
Customer Success
40% ▲
Data Science
20% ▲
Frontend
20% ▼
Security
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added WhatsApp to stack Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack Sep 2026
Added ISO 27001 to stack Sep 2026
Added Go to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Mexico City
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Mexico City Mexico
HQ
6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $125k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Backend, Frontend
seen since Jan 2026 company site, job postings
New York United States
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 10-50 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Leadership
seen since Jan 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $49k – $114k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Mexico City
Python
Go
Claude Code
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Apply
$65k – $91k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Mexico City • New York
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Presto
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
dbt
Feature Store
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
IAM
Analytics
ETL/ELT
AWS Glue
Apply
In office • Full-Time • Mexico City
JavaScript
Claude Code
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Analytics
Metabase
Management
Slack
Apply
$175k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • New York • Mexico City
SQL
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Apply
$180k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • New York
Python
SQL
Jupyter Notebook
Apply
$180k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
Apply
$98k – $144k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Mexico City
Kotlin
Terraform
AWS
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $3M Details