Senior Manager, Engineering

VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust.

That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce. We store more than 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce. That scale isn't incidental. It's why leading companies embed our universal token vault and credential management platform directly into their stack, taming the complexity of payment data so they can move faster.

Come build the platform that enables modern payments for the world's largest companies. We're helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving. And that takes exceptional people.

As a Senior Manager, Engineering, you will serve as an operational and technical leader driving our Payments Acceptance engineering team. In this role, you will lead an autonomous team focused on expanding our high-impact Value-Added Services (VAS) including Network Tokens, Account Updater, 3DS, and Account Validation.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Payments Acceptance, you will work hand-in-hand with Product Management, the CTO, Tech Leads, and adjacent platform teams to shape the future of our core payments platform. Rather than managing standard daily output or supervising rigid task lists, you will drive technical strategy, pioneer AI-native engineering management, and integrate agentic workflows across the entire SDLC. 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.

Trusted Engineering That Matters

VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. VGS Engineering is the pillar that supports that vision. We create a platform that is an indispensable, ubiquitous component of our partners' payments and security infrastructure. We build and operate high-scale, reliable, and resilient systems that manage mission-critical payment data across the globe. We don't just participate in the payments ecosystem; we power it.

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  Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products

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  BA/BS degree

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  A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment

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  Proven track record of rolling out AI developer tools or agentic workflows across an engineering organization.

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  Experience optimizing low-latency distributed data streams and high-concurrency database queries.

At VGS, we embrace a remote-first philosophy because we believe flexibility leads to great work and a healthy work-life balance. That said, if you live within 30 miles of one of our office locations, you'll be on a hybrid schedule with some in-person time, because we know there's real value in coming together.

We're not about being in the office every day. We are about connection, collaboration, and the energy that comes from a great brainstorm, a team lunch, or celebrating a big win in person.

• 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)

• Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)

• HSA/FSA options

• Life and disability insurance

• Pet insurance

• Flexible PTO

• Paid national holidays

• Global parental leave program

• Promote from within

• Lunch and learns

• Team events and summits

We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or other protected classes under all applicable local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).

Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for this position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

We are currently hiring in the following locations: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Ontario (Canada), Alberta (Canada), and British Columbia (Canada).