Engineering Manager/Tech Lead, Finance Technology

The Engineering Manager / Tech Lead, Finance Technology, leads the engineers responsible for Via Central and systems that support Accounting, Finance, Treasury, and the General Ledger. The role ensures that cross-border financial transactions are accurately recorded, reconciled, settled, and reported.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership position focused on reducing manual work through reliable automation and AI agents. The role sets technical direction, develops team members, and partners with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Audit, applying rigorous controls where accuracy, auditability, privacy, and compliance are critical.

Duties and Responsabilities

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop backend and data engineers supporting Via Central and finance systems; conduct one-on-ones, establish goals, provide feedback, and support career development.
• Create a team culture of ownership, quality, reliable delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for finance workflows including general ledger posting, journal entries, reconciliation, settlement, and financial reporting.
• Make and review design decisions involving data integrity, idempotency, double-entry accounting, audit trails, security, and system reliability.
• Review code and technical designs; remain hands-on in critical engineering paths, reduce technical debt, and improve observability.
• Partner with Operations and Finance to map manual workflows, prioritize opportunities, and deliver automation and AI agents for reconciliation, exception handling, invoice or payout matching, month-end close, and reporting.
• Enable effective use of AI development assistants and agents while establishing controls for human review, validation, explainability, and audit logging in financial applications.
• Measure automation impact through hours saved, close time, reconciliation match rate, exception backlog, and error rate.
• Translate business requirements into prioritized delivery plans; manage sprints, dependencies, and communicate project status and risks early.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, and Audit to meet applicable regulatory requirements and SOX-style controls; track DORA metrics and team-level quality indicators.

Information Security Responsabilities

• Make sure you and your team read, acknowledge, and comply with Viamericas’ Staff Information Security Policy.
• Make sure you and your team attend the periodic Information Security training provided by Viamericas.
• Report any event that might be an Information Security Incident: clicking on a malicious link, downloading and opening a suspicious file, etc.
• Protect from disclosure all sensitive information, credentials, and access to servers to which you have access.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager.
• Hands-on experience with financial or accounting systems such as general ledger, double-entry bookkeeping, journal entries, reconciliations, or settlement.
• Demonstrated leadership, sound judgment, clear cross-functional communication, and a measurable record of delivering automation that reduces manual effort.
• Ability to decide where AI is appropriate and when human controls are necessary in sensitive financial processes.

Technical Requirements

• High level of JavaScript, ReactJS, python.
• SQL server experience is a must.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience in client-server or n-tier architectures required, service-oriented, RESTful or micro-services experience preferred.
• Ideally the candidate has worked in an Agile environment.

Additional Requirements (Preferred)

• Background in payments, fintech, remittances, foreign exchange, payouts, agent networks, or settlement.
• Familiarity with GAAP, month-end close, external audits, and SOX-style controls.
• Experience integrating ERP/finance software such as NetSuite, Dynamics 365, SAP, or QuickBooks.
• Building AI agents or multi-agent workflows (e.g., Kiro SDK, LangChain) and MCP integrations.
• Document AI and OCR for invoices, statements, and bank records.
• Risk and compliance experience (AML/KYC, transaction monitoring) and work in regulated environments.
• Data pipelines, ETL, warehouses, Power BI, process mapping, Lean/Six Sigma, Docker, or Kubernetes.

Working Conditions

General office working conditions with a hybrid work schedule.