Senior Manager of Engineering

Join VGS as a Senior Manager of Engineering, where you will lead our Payments Acceptance engineering team and drive technical strategy. You will work closely with Product Management, the CTO, Tech Leads, and adjacent platform teams to shape the future of our core payments platform. Your responsibilities will include pioneering AI-native engineering management, driving engineering excellence and velocity, executing the strategic roadmap, building and elevating high-performing teams, and ensuring system resiliency and operations.

Lead and drive the Payments Acceptance engineering team, focusing on expanding high-impact Value-Added Services (VAS) such as Network Tokens and Account Updater.

We are looking for a high-agency leader with an unyielding bias for continuous improvement—someone who refuses to settle for the status quo, hates manual friction, and thrives on building enterprise-grade, mission-critical financial products with world-class scalability, reliability, and security

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-native engineering management and integrate agentic workflows across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to enhance engineering velocity.
• Build and elevate high-performing teams by hiring, coaching, and retaining top engineering talent, fostering an environment of continuous learning and high accountability.
• Distributed Systems Depth: Proven expertise managing distributed Java microservices. Strong command of REST APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka/SQS), relational/NoSQL databases, and high-performance data platforms
• Cloud-Native Mastery: Direct experience delivering containerized applications (Kubernetes, Docker) in public cloud environments (AWS) with modern telemetry and observability stacks
• AI-Augmented SDLC Command: Deep familiarity with modern Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, specifically adapted for AI-native workflows (e.g., managing agentic code pipelines, automated testing suites, and AI-assisted deployment pipelines)
• A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment

Requirements

• Security & Compliance Foundations: Solid understanding of operating within regulated environments (PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001), treating security and compliance as fundamental engineering constraints
• Engineering Leadership: 5+ years of experience managing, leading, or architecting high-throughput engineering teams within enterprise or high-growth SaaS environments
• High-Agency Management Style: A "lead from the front" mindset with a track record of identifying operational friction and reimagining standard processes. You take personal ownership of outcomes and empower engineers to do the best work of their careers
• Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
• Proven track record of rolling out AI developer tools or agentic workflows across an engineering organization
• BA/BS degree
• Experience optimizing low-latency distributed data streams and high-concurrency database queries

Pay

USD 180,000 - 250,000