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Katapult Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🤝 B2B

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🎯 Recruiter

B2B • Artificial Intelligence • Recruitment

Katapult Labs is a boutique software development and team-augmentation firm that embeds AI-first, bilingual LATAM engineering pods with U. S. startups to build products from MVP to growth stage. They recruit, vet, payroll, and manage dedicated teams (including fractional CTO support) while handling HR and legal obligations, prioritizing speed, quality, and affordable nearshore talent in U. S. time zones.

📋 Description

• Technical leadership and architecture (the heart of the role). You own the technical bar across web, backend, data, mobile, cloud, infrastructure, and security. You make the hard architecture calls, lead the reviews, and design the foundations of new projects. • Engineering org, culture, and talent. You grow our engineering organization the modern way: horizontal, high-trust, outcome-driven, not stacked with management layers. You set the hiring bar, define how we level builders, and shape the culture, incentives, and processes that make strong engineers want to do their best work here. • AI harness engineering as a core discipline. You treat the harness as real engineering: the scaffolding, tools, context, memory, evals, and guardrails that wrap a model and turn it into something production-grade. You set the judgment for where AI speeds us up and where it quietly drops the quality bar, and you coach the team to build at that level (the harness, not just the prompts). • Delivery and the strike team. When a new engagement needs the best of the best to stabilize it or set the right foundation, you're on the strike team. You roll up your sleeves on prototypes, early product builds, architecture, and the hard first 20%. Then you hand off clean to the squad that runs with it. • Partner and commercial partnership (grows with the role). You work directly with founders and C-level stakeholders, with the presence to represent Katapult at the highest level. When technical weight helps win or shape the right work, you step into the sales motion.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years building production software, several of them leading and growing engineering teams. • Impeccable, advanced English. Every collaboration happens in English. • Deep architecture experience across cloud (AWS / GCP), infrastructure, microservices, event-driven systems, and API design (REST / gRPC). • Strong full-stack breadth: modern web (React, Next.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and backend (Node, Python, Go, or similar). • Hands-on with AI coding tools and agent harnesses (Claude Code, Codex CLI, and the like). A feel for the scaffolding around the model, not just the prompts. • Solid grounding in data and analytics: pipelines and data-driven products (ML / AI a strong plus). • Security baked in to how you architect and review, not patched on after. • Working knowledge of mobile delivery. • Real frontend taste and product sense. • A track record of scaling systems and improving reliability and quality at meaningful volume. • Experience working remotely with US-based startups and founders, with high autonomy and strong execution.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from Anywhere in Latin America: Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from any country in Latin America. • 23 Days of PTO per Year: Take time to recharge with paid time off, accrued monthly (1.25 days/month). • USA Federal Holidays • Monthly Payment in USD: Get paid in US dollars, no matter where you are. • Contractor Agreement with No End Date: Enjoy the stability of a long-term contract. • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): Use your own equipment and receive $50/month as a rental stipend. • Health Insurance Stipend: Get $75/month to support your health and wellness.