4 months ago
Greece (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$80k - $85k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize highly available Java microservices powering VGS’s core payments and tokenization platform.
- Build self-healing systems and automate delivery using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Own observability and operations with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, including on-call participation and incident post-mortems.
- Develop and operate core services for authentication, authorization, audit logging, and platform observability.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to create Golden Paths that streamline software delivery and improve internal platform adoption.
- Own services end to end while balancing security, low latency, scalability, and developer experience.
- Mentor engineers and establish a high bar for code quality and testing.
- Use AI-augmented developer tools to automate boilerplate, improve tests, and increase engineering productivity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience owning features end to end in complex, high-throughput distributed systems.
- Proficiency with Java, Spring or Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservice design patterns.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka or SQS.
- Experience tuning relational databases for performance.
- Strong experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS in the cloud, preferably AWS.
- Ability to write secure code, design secure APIs, and work in regulated environments involving PCI-DSS and SOC2.
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, security products, proxy architecture, tokenization technologies, performance tuning, or network proxy optimization is preferred.
- BA/BS degree is preferred.
- Experience using AI developer tools in daily engineering workflows is preferred.
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About VGS
VGS builds a payment data security and tokenization platform for merchants, fintechs, and banks, enabling them to collect, store, and route sensitive card and PII data without retaining the raw values. Its suite includes a PCI-compliant data vault, payment tokenization, network tokens, account updater, payment orchestration, and card management APIs, delivered as a managed SaaS service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.