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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 56 days Verygoodsecurity's roles stay open a median of 51 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Verygoodsecurity's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Verygoodsecurity
- high 16 stale, 1 reposted of 20 open
- Hiring momentum
- 26 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
As a Senior Manager of Engineering at VGS, you will lead the Payments Acceptance engineering team, focusing on enhancing Value-Added Services such as Network Tokens and Account Validation. You will collaborate with Product Management and other technical leaders to drive engineering excellence and implement AI-native workflows, while fostering a high-performing team culture. Your role will involve strategic roadmap execution, ensuring system resiliency, and maintaining high standards for performance and security in a mission-critical environment.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 5+ years of experience managing, leading, or architecting high-throughput engineering teams within enterprise or high-growth SaaS environments
- Deep familiarity with modern Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, specifically adapted for AI-native workflows
- Proven expertise managing distributed Java microservices
- Strong command of REST APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka/SQS), relational/NoSQL databases, and high-performance data platforms
- Direct experience delivering containerized applications (Kubernetes, Docker) in public cloud environments (AWS)
- Solid understanding of operating within regulated environments (PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001)
Nice to have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
- BA/BS degree
- A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
- Proven track record of rolling out AI developer tools or agentic workflows across an engineering organization
- Experience optimizing low-latency distributed data streams and high-concurrency database queries
What you get
- Competitive salary
- 401(k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting (applies to US only)
- Early equity
- Internet stipend
- Learning stipend
- Office set-up stipend (applies to US only)
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Remote-first philosophy with hybrid options for local employees
- Focus on high agency and ownership may require a self-motivated work style
- Emphasis on AI-native engineering practices may require adaptability to new methodologies
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Listed by Verygoodsecurity on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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