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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
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Verygoodsecurity's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Verygoodsecurity.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer at VGS, you will contribute to the Payments Acceptance team by designing, scaling, and fortifying high-throughput payment systems. Your role involves building mission-critical services, integrating AI-native engineering methodologies, and ensuring system reliability and performance. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers, taking ownership of service functionality and driving engineering velocity.
- benefits
- 1/5
- 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 software engineering experience in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
- Proficiency in Java and modern frameworks (Spring/Spring Boot)
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, SQS)
- Solid experience with containerized delivery paradigms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
- Understanding of secure coding practices and operating within compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, SOC2)
- Ability to take ownership and solve complex problems without needing detailed instructions
Nice to have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
- BA/BS degree
- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
- Direct domain experience in payments (Network Tokens, Account Updater, or 3DS)
- Experience leveraging AI developer tools or agentic automation in engineering workflows
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on high agency and ownership may require a self-driven mindset
- The role involves on-call rotations and post-mortems for system reliability
- Emphasis on AI-native engineering methodologies may require adaptation to new tools
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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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