Engineering Manager AI

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!

About the Role

DEUNA is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our AI/ML engineering team — the group building the intelligent systems behind payment routing optimization, authorization rate improvement, and our AI-powered digital workforce products. You will manage a team of engineers (currently ~7-8) spanning ML, backend, and platform work, while staying close enough to the technical details to guide architecture decisions, unblock your team, and represent the group's roadmap to product and leadership.

This is a hands-on management role: you won't be writing production code day-to-day, but you need enough depth in ML systems, backend services, and AI/LLM workflows to make good calls on architecture, review technical approaches, and coach engineers through hard problems. You'll own delivery for the team — scoping, costing, and sequencing initiatives — while building a low-tech-debt, high-quality engineering culture.

 

Who You Are

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 2-3+ years in a people management role leading engineers.

• You have significant experience building and shipping backend and/or ML systems at scale, ideally with exposure to fintech, payments, or another regulated, latency-sensitive domain.

• You've managed engineers before, hiring, developing, and retaining a team, and you know

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📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

• 1. Applying rigid US or European fintech playbooks directly to LatAm markets without local adaptation
• 2. Failing to prioritize latency reduction in checkout conversion pipelines
• 3. Hesitating when asked to operate autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving situations

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build frictionless checkout infrastructures that maximize conversion and crush fraud across the complex LatAm digital commerce ecosystem.