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Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Hybrid
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Viamericas is a cross-border payments and financial services company with a clear purpose: help immigrant families prosper by providing essential, secure and affordable financial services delivered with the reassurance of a human connection.
Our customers trust us to move nearly $20 billion annually. We connect digital money transfers with a network of local agents, bringing financial services closer to the communities we serve.
With offices in Miami, Los Angeles, Medellín, Tijuana and Manila—and a growing presence in Canada, Bangladesh, India and Dubai—we are positioned for continued global growth, innovation and impact.
We’re looking for people to tackle difficult problems, hold their work to a high standard, and follow through on results. Across technology, operations, sales, marketing and beyond, the goal is to improve customer experience, make business more effective, and drive sustainable growth.
At Viamericas, the connection between your work and its impact is tangible: better services for customers, stronger businesses for our agents, and greater opportunity for the families we serve.
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.
• 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.
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