Director of Engineering – Financial Apps & Security

Deluxe; Guadalajara; On-site; MXN 400,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

Vacation & sick leave

401(k)

Job summary

Deluxe is seeking a Director of Engineering – Shared Applications to lead multiple teams building mission-critical financial applications, including payments, billing, forecasting and compliance. You’ll champion delivery excellence, secure-by-design development, and AI-powered tooling while partnering with architecture, product, security and risk leaders.

The role focuses on scalable, secure, cloud-native delivery and ongoing process improvements across engineering functions in a global company.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading teams.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale applications.
• Strong backend language background and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience enabling teams with AI-assisted development tools.
• Ability to execute programs in collaboration with architecture and product leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers across multiple teams.
• Drive consistent execution of development, testing, deployment, and support activities.
• Establish modern engineering practices and foster continuous learning, automation, and quality.
• Promote AI-assisted coding tools, intelligent QA/test automation, and accelerators to boost productivity and reduce defects.
• Ensure all financial applications align with enterprise standards, patterns, and reference implementations.
• Partner with Product Owners to translate product requirements into technical execution plans.
• Guide teams in scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions.
• Follow secure-by-design principles, including threat modeling and secure code reviews.
• Collaborate with InfoSec, Compliance, and Risk teams to maintain auditability and data integrity.
• Drive continuous improvement in application reliability, incident response, and operational resilience.

Skills

Team leadership

Delivery of large-scale apps

AI-assisted development tools

Architectural collaboration

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Cloud-native

Microservices

Job description

Deluxe is seeking a Director of Engineering – Shared Applications to lead multiple teams building mission-critical financial applications, including payments, billing, forecasting and compliance. You’ll champion delivery excellence, secure-by-design development, and AI-powered tooling while partnering with architecture, product, security and risk leaders.

The role focuses on scalable, secure, cloud-native delivery and ongoing process improvements across engineering functions in a global company.