1 year ago
Base Salary
$140k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize high-availability Java microservices for the Payments Acceptance platform and Value-Added Services.
- Develop automated, self-healing services using infrastructure automation, modern delivery pipelines, and reliability practices.
- Configure and maintain Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry telemetry tooling to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead blameless post-mortems to improve system reliability.
- Build and adopt internal Golden Paths that streamline software delivery and improve engineering velocity.
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers while promoting high code quality and testing standards.
- Own service functionality end-to-end, including security, performance, low latency, and external customer traffic.
- Integrate AI-augmented development tools and agentic workflows into software engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience owning features in complex, high-throughput distributed systems and mission-critical environments.
- Proficiency in Java and modern frameworks including Spring and Spring Boot, with strong knowledge of distributed architecture and microservices design patterns.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka, SQS, and relational database tuning and performance optimization.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or EKS, and public cloud ecosystems, preferably AWS.
- Understanding of secure coding, API security, and regulated compliance frameworks including PCI-DSS and SOC2.
- Preferred qualifications include tokenization, payment processing, security product, or direct payments experience.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Network Tokens, Account Updater, or 3DS.
- Preferred qualifications include AI developer tools or agentic automation experience and database performance tuning in high-concurrency production environments.
- A BA/BS degree 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.