R2 enables platforms to offer flexible financing to their merchants in Latin America
These merchants are typically small and medium businesses (SMBs), which make up over 90% of companies in Latam yet face a trillion-dollar credit gap. At R2, we believe that SMBs are the productive engine of society.
R2 integrates with technology platforms in Latin America to embed tailored financial services that SMBs can then leverage. We are a tight-knit team backed by world-class investors such as General Catalyst and Y Combinator, among others.
As a Frontend Engineer, we're looking for a leader who can design and implement highly scalable UIs and its corresponding environment allowing our platform to be embedded into various third-party platforms, promoting a culture of technical learning, and pushing junior teammates to grow into excellent engineers.
What you'll work on
Build, maintain and improve UIs around core business and infrastructure capabilities
Work closely with product managers to deliver high quality user-oriented UI components
Deliver features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
Ensure testing is in place for every delivered component
Identify areas for improvement, be it in the frontend or backend of our platform
Ensure delivery of mission-critical systems with tight deadlines
Research and invest in new tooling to improve services
Think about security throughout everything you do
Promote a culture that fosters learning, growth, risk taking, and accountability
Work with other teams to figure out how to build tools to make them more productive
Who you are
3+ years of experience with frontend frameworks and technologies - mainly React, but also SSR
You love to write code in Typescript
Proficient with testing frameworks such as Mocha, JEST, Jasmine, Karma
Like to own your software stack: Deploy it, Monitor it, Alert on it!
Good communication skills and great team player
Fan of writing excellent API documentation
Proficient in both English and Spanish (or Portuguese) - the team is distributed in LatAm
I'm currently the Co-Founder and CEO of R2 Capital (YC W21). Before that, I spent time with Latin American neobank, Ualá, launching operations in Mexico.
Pior to Ualá, I was an investment banker focused on M&A and restructuring deals in Latin America.
Roger Teran
Co-founder of R2 Capital
Grew up in El Salvador. Early data scientist at WeWork, then led analytics at Reef, one of the largest networks of dark kitchens. Started my career helping SMBs in Central America find growth capital.
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