Full Stack AI Automation Engineer

Full Stack AI Automation Engineer

Nobody hands you a ticket. You sit inside real US service businesses, find the work that should not be done by hand, and build the thing that removes it.

Remote · Latin America · $3,500-$4,200 USD/month · Full-time · Independent Contractor · Monday to Friday · 9 AM-5 PM ET

Why this role exists

Our client runs established US service businesses with real operations behind them: call centers, field teams, schedules, invoices, and customers who call when something breaks. They are not software companies, and that is the point. There is a lot of work happening today that a good engineer could automate, and nobody in house is going to build it.

What you'll own

• Sit with the operating team, learn the workflow, and identify what is worth automating
• Build and ship full stack applications and internal tools, end to end
• Build AI automations and agents on top of existing systems: phone, email, scheduling, CRM, billing
• Integrate systems that were never designed to talk to each other, through APIs, webhooks and databases
• Ship prototypes fast, put them in front of real users, and iterate on what comes back
• Keep what you build running, and document it well enough that the business is not dependent on you being awake
• Explain your work to people who are not technical, and say no when an idea is not worth building

Why this is interesting

• The problems are real and the constraints are real. Not a backlog someone else wrote, and not a demo. Things that break when they break
• Full stack plus LLMs plus whatever the integration needs. You pick the tools and you own the call
• You work across more than one business, so you learn to get to the real problem fast and ship something useful before anyone loses interest

What we're looking for

• 4 or more years building software end to end, frontend and backend
• Strong in TypeScript or Python, comfortable with APIs, databases and cloud deployment
• Real automations built with LLMs, not demos. OpenAI, Claude or similar, wired into systems people actually use
• n8n, Make, Zapier or your own code to connect tools that do not integrate
• AI coding tools used every day as part of how you build
• Strong English in speech and writing. You can sit in a call with a business owner and come out with the right problem
• You ship. You have built and launched things on your own, and you would rather have something working on Friday than perfect in a month

Bonus

• Service businesses: home services, field operations, call centers, logistics
• Telephony or voice AI platforms
• You have been the only engineer on something and it survived
• Data pipelines or reporting on top of operational systems

What success looks like

First 90 days

• By day 30 you understand how the business runs and you have shipped your first automation, small but in production
• By day 60 you have delivered something the team uses daily and you are bringing your own list of what to build next
• By day 90 there is work that used to take hours a week and now takes none, and the owner can name it

Ongoing

• You find the problems yourself instead of waiting for a ticket
• What you build stays running and other people can maintain it
• The business measures the hours you gave back, and the number keeps growing

Why Puente

Puente connects experienced Latin American professionals with growing US companies. We do not operate as a generic job board: we selectively match candidates with active roles and guide them through the hiring process.

3% acceptance rate · 2,873+ professionals placed · 97% retention beyond 12 months · 18 countries · 100% remote

Hiring process

• Apply, including a short skills assessment
• Puente screening: recruiter interview
• Technical exercise, short and paid, close to the real work
• Client interview, then background check and offer

Apply now

The application includes a short written assessment, around 20 minutes. Submit your resume in PDF and complete it in one sitting.