Head of Data Engineering

Head of Data Engineering

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Remote, LATAM, Full Time, Manager

Who We Are

At Yuno, we are building the payment infrastructure that enables all companies to participate in the global market. Founded by a team of seasoned experts in the payments and IT industries, Yuno provides a high‑performance payment orchestrator. Our technology offers companies access to leading payment capabilities, allowing them to engage customers confidently and maintain global business operations with seamless payment integrations worldwide.

Shape your future with Yuno

We are orchestrating the best high‑performing team If you are an Engineering Leader ambitious and passionate about innovation, joining Yuno will allow you to transform your passion into real high‑impact solutions. At Yuno, every role impacts the payment revolution.

As Head of the Data & Conciliations Team, you’ll lead, grow and work hands‑on with a multidisciplinary group focused on building and scaling Yuno’s reconciliation systems—the backbone ensuring accuracy, transparency, and reliability across our payment ecosystem. Your team’s mission is to design, maintain, and evolve the systems that reconcile millions of transactions daily across multiple payment processors, currencies, and partners.

Your challenge at Yuno

- Lead and mentor cross‑functional teams including engineers, scientists, analysts, and BI professionals.

- Design and oversee the architecture of Yuno’s data infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance across all data pipelines.

- Monitor data health metrics and lead remediation of critical data issues.

- Architect scalable infrastructure including data lakes, warehouses, and pipelines.

- Ensure high availability, security, and performance of platforms (e.g. Snowflake, AWS).

- Drive automation and observability to reduce downtime and improve operational efficiency.

- Define and execute the enterprise data integration strategy and roadmap.

- Lead adoption of cloud‑native and hybrid integration tools.

- Champion modern integration patterns including data mesh, API‑led connectivity, and event‑driven architectures.

Skills you need

Minimum Qualifications

- Fluent in Spanish and English.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent real‑world experience in data roles.

- 8+ years of engineering leadership with 3+ years managing managers across data‑heavy backend teams (or an equivalent track record of shipping production data systems at internet scale).

- Track record of shipping production data systems at massive scale.

- Experience with modern data stack (SQL, Python, dbt, BigQuery, Looker, etc.).

- Experience with APIs and integrations with third‑party systems, and batch/streaming data processing.

What we offer at Yuno

- Competitive Compensation

- Remote work – You can work from everywhere

- Home Office Bonus – We offer a one‑time allowance to help you create your ideal home office.

- Stock options

- Health Plan wherever you are

- Flexible Days off

- Language, Professional and Personal growth courses

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

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