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DEUNA Bogota, D.C., Capital District, Colombia

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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! 🚀 Visit https : / / www.deuna.com / to learn more about us!

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

Benefits

DEUNA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value and celebrate diversity and inclusion in our workplace. All employment decisions at DEUNA are made without discrimination based on nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, color, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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