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Our mission is to increase consumers' buying power in Latin America, and we're doing so by building an AI-native platform powered by credit.\nNelo has raised over $40M of venture capital from investors including Homebrew, Two Sigma Ventures, and Susa Ventures. Nelo has additionally raised a $100M asset credit facility from Victory Park Capital.\nOur lean team includes experienced leaders from top technology companies such as Uber, Amazon, Rappi, and DiDi. We pride ourselves on our values:\nEveryone is an Owner Be our Best Selves Move Fast, Learn Fast Open & Honest Communication Customer-First\nWe pride ourselves on our velocity, intellectual rigor, and efficiency.\nNelo has offices in Mexico City and New York City.\nWHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT\nAt most companies, a frontend engineer ships tickets against someone else's roadmap and waits weeks to see anything reach production. Nelo runs on 10 engineers moving a product that has processed over $1B in total GMV, which changes what the job actually is.\nYou will own entire user-facing surfaces of the app that hundreds of thousands of people use to pay for real things with real money. There is no frontend guild to hand designs down to you and no release train to queue behind. You work directly with design and the founders, ship daily, and see the conversion impact of your work in the data the same week.\nYou will also work AI-native from day one. Every engineer at Nelo uses agentic coding tools in their daily workflow, so a single frontend engineer here covers the surface area a team of four covers elsewhere. If you have wanted to find out what your ceiling is with modern tooling, this is the environment to find out.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nOwn the consumer experience end to end\nOwn major surfaces of the Nelo app: onboarding, checkout, payments, and credit flows, from design partnership through production monitoring.\n\nShip experiments that move activation and conversion, and read your own results in the data.\n\nRaise the quality bar\nSet the standard for performance, reliability, and polish in an app people trust with their money.\n\nReduce frontend defects reaching production by building the testing and review practices you want to work within.\n\nBuild with AI leverage\nUse Claude Code and other agentic tools as your default workflow, and push the team's practices forward as the tooling improves.\n\nAutomate the repetitive parts of frontend work so your time goes to product judgment, not boilerplate.\n\nWHY YOU SHOULD APPLY\nYou have shipped consumer-facing mobile or web products at scale and can point to specific metrics your work moved.\n\nYou have strong product judgment: you push back on designs when the flow is wrong, not just implement them faithfully.\n\nYou are already using agentic coding tools daily, or you are eager to make them your primary workflow.\n\nYou want ownership of a surface, not a slice of one, and you are comfortable being the person accountable for it.\n\nYou care about the difference between an app that works and an app that feels trustworthy enough to handle someone's money.\n\nWHY YOU SHOULD NOT APPLY\nYou want a large frontend team around you. There are 10 engineers total. You will often be the only person on your surface.\n\nYou need a PM to hand you fully specified tickets. Here you help decide what to build, and ambiguity is the default state.\n\nYou are not interested in working in-office. This role is based in our Mexico City or New York City office, because the speed we ship at depends on engineers, design, and founders being in the same room. Remote is not an option.\n\nYou are skeptical of AI-assisted development. It is not optional here; it is how the team works.\n\nHOW WE WORK\n~70 people across CDMX and New York. Lean, fast, opinionated about quality.\n\nEngineering is in-office, in Roma Norte (Mexico City) or Tribeca (New York City), given the proximity required with design, product, and the founders.\n\nEvery team at Nelo uses AI in daily workflows. Engineering is no exception: Claude Code is standard issue.\n\nTooling you will touch: Linear, Slack, Metabase, and our internal experimentation stack.\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nRequired\nEngineering background with substantial time shipping consumer-facing frontend in production (mobile or web).\n\nDeep fluency in a modern frontend stack (React / React Native or equivalent) and the judgment to know when the framework is not the answer.\n\nComfort owning outcomes end to end: you have carried features from ambiguous idea to measured production impact.\n\nWorking proficiency in English (our engineering documentation and much of our communication is in English).\n\nStrong signals\nYou have worked on payments, checkout, or other money-moving flows.\n\nYou use Claude Code or other agentic coding tools as a core part of how you work.\n\nYou have shipped in a startup or small team where you were the frontend function, not a member of it.\n\nYou have moved a conversion or activation metric and can walk us through how.\n\nCOMPENSATION & BENEFITS\nIf based in Mexico City:\nBase Salary (MXN, monthly, gross)\n\nEquity\n\nNelo Leverage Time Program: We provide a budget for outsourcing and AI tools\n\nMajor Medical Expenses Insurance\n\n100% medical, dental & vision coverage for you (50% for dependents)\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nExtended maternity and paternity leave\n\nRelocation support\n\nA pet-friendly and fully equipped office in the heart of Mexico City\n\nSabbatical Program\n\nIf based in New York City:\nBase Salary (USD, annual)\n\nEquity\n\nNelo Leverage Time Program: We provide a budget for outsourcing and AI tools\n\n100% medical, dental, and vision coverage (50% for dependents)\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\n401(k) for US residents\n\nExtended maternity and paternity leave\n\nRelocation support\n\nA fully equipped office in Tribeca\n\nSabbatical Program\n\nABOUT THE PROCESS\nWe move fast. 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