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The role ensures that cross-border financial transactions are accurately recorded, reconciled, settled, and reported.\nThis 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.\nDuties and Responsabilities\nLead, 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.\nCreate a team culture of ownership, quality, reliable delivery, and continuous improvement.\nOwn the architecture and technical roadmap for finance workflows including general ledger posting, journal entries, reconciliation, settlement, and financial reporting.\nMake and review design decisions involving data integrity, idempotency, double-entry accounting, audit trails, security, and system reliability.\nReview code and technical designs; remain hands-on in critical engineering paths, reduce technical debt, and improve observability.\nPartner 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.\nEnable effective use of AI development assistants and agents while establishing controls for human review, validation, explainability, and audit logging in financial applications.\nMeasure automation impact through hours saved, close time, reconciliation match rate, exception backlog, and error rate.\nTranslate business requirements into prioritized delivery plans; manage sprints, dependencies, and communicate project status and risks early.\nCollaborate with Compliance, Risk, and Audit to meet applicable regulatory requirements and SOX-style controls; track DORA metrics and team-level quality indicators.\nInformation Security Responsabilities\nMake sure you and your team read, acknowledge, and comply with Viamericas’ Staff Information Security 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