Head of Engineering

hace 1 mes

Quito DEUNA Full time

About DEUNA 

DEUNA is a rapidly growing startup revolutionizing global commerce with ATHIA, our AI-powered orchestration and payments platform that helps large enterprises boost approval rates, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue. Built by the team behind DEUNA—the fastest-growing Commerce OS in Latin America—ATHIA combines payment intelligence, checkout optimization, and data orchestration in one powerful solution.

With deep integrations across 300+ PSPs and alternative payment methods, and over 20% of Mexico's digital economy running through our platform, we simplify global payments through a single integration and centralized reconciliation.

We are a rapidly growing startup expanding into the U.S. to meet the urgent needs of large retailers, marketplaces, airlines, and QSRs. Join us to shape the future of payments

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Role Overview

As Head of Engineering – Payments, you will lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of our payments platform. You'll oversee a team of engineers and technical leads responsible for building scalable, secure, and resilient payment systems that process thousands of transactions daily across multiple markets.

You'll partner closely with Product, Operations, and Compliance to ensure our payments stack supports rapid growth, innovation, and best-in-class reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Define and execute the technical strategy for payments architecture and infrastructure.

Lead engineering teams in developing high-availability, low-latency payment services.

Oversee integrations with acquirers, PSPs, digital wallets, and alternative payment methods.

Collaborate with Product to align technical priorities with business objectives.

Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, PSD2, and global data-protection standards.

Implement best practices in reliability, observability, CI/CD, and cloud scalability.

Mentor and grow technical leaders and senior engineers across LATAM.

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ in leadership roles.

Proven track record building and scaling payment or fintech platforms.

Strong expertise in backend development , Java, Go) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Deep understanding of payment orchestration, tokenization, 3DS, and settlement.

Experience leading distributed teams and managing complex integrations.

Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field.

What will you find when you join DEUNA?

- A multicultural team distributed throughout LATAM

- Dynamism, agility and constant innovation

- Being part of a high-impact solution for an entire region

- The best tools and technology to operate

- Being part of the startup culture.

- We are in full expansion

Benefits:

Vacations and additional PTO

Remote work from anywhere 

Economic support for health insurance, internet and cell phone line

We all own DEUNA, we offer stock options

Learning and development platform

Multidisciplinary, diverse and dynamic team

Growth and career path 

Be part of a dynamic team that's creating the next generation payments platform.

Join us at DEUNA

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