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Kavak, the used car buying and selling company, incorporates employees in the country. How to apply.


08/18/2021 1:19 PM

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Updated 08/18/2021 1:19 PM

Kavak

, the Mexican unicorn that merged with the Argentine company

Checkars

and is a leader in buying, selling and financing pre-owned cars in Latin America, is looking for employees.

They have just announced the creation of a new global team for technology development with offices in

Mexico, Brazil

and

Argentina

, for which it will incorporate

more than 500 software engineers

in the region.

The project is led by

Fernando Scasserra

, former director of Engineering at Mercado Libre, who joined Kavak to build and lead the new global team that will work in the four technology hubs, located in

Mexico City, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.

.

"After 15 years of enormous learning at Mercado Libre, I join

Kavak's

global project

, where I will have the opportunity to build and lead an incredible team with a very ambitious goal. We have the goal of revolutionizing the pre-owned car industry and developing the best technology with the best talent on the market, "said

Scasserra

, Chief Technology Officer at Kavak.

To achieve these objectives, Kavak will hire 100 programmers in Mexico, 300 in Brazil and

120 programmers in Argentina

to whom they will offer

senior positions stock options

, that is, shares of the company.

These developers will join the current Buenos Aires hub, which already has 100 technology talents working on global reach solutions.

Fernando Scasserra, Director of Technology at Kavak.

Photo: Archive.

Another possibility that they will offer to those interested is to

relocate to the other countries

in which they operate, which for the moment are Brazil and Mexico, although they seek to reach other large cities in the region and eventually to

emerging Asian countries

.


"We want to find people to join this ambitious

expansion plan

. We are looking for developers with a product and business vision, focused on creating the best customer experience. Kavak is a place to build solutions, to see the impact it has what they do. Those who are interested can find the searches on our job site, "said Scasserra.

What positions are they looking for at Kavak

For the most part, says Scasserra, Kavak is looking

for software engineers

, both juniors and semi-seniors.

These are some of the searches that the company has open:

  • Business Analyst


  • Customer Journey Effectiveness


  • Commercial Coordinator


  • Delivery Coordinator


  • Post Coordinator


  • Technical Account Manager


  • Workforce Effectiveness Manager


  • Commercial Quality Coordinator


  • Insurance Coordinator


  • Operations Staffing Sr. Analyst


  • Performance & Revenue Analyst


  • Customer Experience Manager

  • Commercial Head


  • Reception Assistant


  • HUB Operations Coordinator


  • Customer University Business Analyst


  • Hub Leader


  • Mechanical Inspector


  • Architectural Project Manager 


  • Facilities Maintenance Leader


  • Facilities Manager


  • Procurement Analyst.

Scasserra anticipated that after adding these 500 people they

will continue looking for more personnel

to strengthen the platform for Latin America.

One of the headquarters of Kavak, the used car buying and selling company.

Photo: Archive.

How to apply

The full list of positions applied for can be found

on the official site

of the signature, where in addition the interested ones

will

be

able to apply

.

They can also do it on the brand page on

LinkedIn

.


How much do they pay in Kavak

Although the company does not comment on it, the market salary for a

junior is US $ 1,300

and for a

semi-senior, US $ 1,800.

What Scasserra did point out is, as mentioned above, that part of the compensation package includes the opportunity to obtain

shares in the company

with a time limit of at least one year.

"The percentage of shares increases as time goes on in the company," says Kavak's chief technology officer.

How Kavak works

The business operates mostly

online

.

The cars can be bought through the web

with delivery to the buyer's home

or if you want to check the unit you can go to one of the Kavak stores in the Abasto shopping center, in the Dot or in the showroom and inspection center of San Martin.

“Kavak gives more security to the seller and the buyer.

To the seller because

no one strangers

to his house, but takes the car to our workshops, where it is rigorously analyzed and appraised ".

"As for the buyer, he has the guarantee that the vehicle is verified and, if he does not like it, he can return it within a week. What we do is reduce friction and distrust of the operation", they explain from the company .


What is Kavak's link with Argentina

In August of last year, Mexico's Kavak and Argentina's

Checkars

merged.

Both were focused on revolutionizing the

used car buying and selling

market

in their respective countries.

In this way, Checkars became the "Argentine leg" of the Mexican woman, who a month earlier announced her new

unicorn

status

.

Checkars was born by the hand of

Jaime Macaya and Juan Cruz de la Rúa

: they met working on the OLX e-commerce platform, they developed an idea together, and after leaving their regional positions, in 2018 they got to work.

In just two years of operation, the platform beat its own forecasts: it carried out 1,500 transactions and reached an annual turnover of

US $ 8 million

in 2019.

Already last year, Kavak bet again on Argentina and opened a technology hub

in Buenos Aires

that is in charge of developing different technological solutions for the new unicorn.

To achieve this, they announced an

investment of US $ 10 million

.

In April this year, the Mexican company with Argentine DNA reached a

valuation of US $ 4,000 million

after a financing round in which it raised US $ 485 million.

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Source: clarin

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