# Senior Manager, Engineering

**Company**: VGS
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager (US-only) to lead our Payments Acceptance team. This is a backend-heavy leadership role focused on expanding our Value-Added Services (VAS),the high-impact products built on our flagship platform, including Network Tokens, Account Updater, 3DS, and Account Validation.  ## Responsibilities  * Drive AI-Native Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of services using AI-augmented development methodologies. * Strategic Partnership: Partner with Product Management to define the feature roadmap ensuring security, performance, and scalability are prioritized alongside new value-added services. * Lead from the Front: Hire, coach, and mentor a high-performing team. * Architectural Oversight: Collaborate with the CTO and Tech Leads to drive design choices, ensuring your team’s services follow established patterns while remaining innovative. * Operational Excellence: Manage unplanned workstreams,incidents, vulnerabilities, and defects,with a sharp focus on building resilient, self-healing systems. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Payments Acceptance Foundations, Sustaining, Infrastructure, Shared Services and Security teams to resolve dependencies and ensure a seamless path to production for VAS products. * Cultivate Code Quality: Foster a rigorous engineering culture centered on comprehensive testing, automation, and robust code reviews, tailored specifically for AI-augmented development workflows. * Embody Our Leadership Principles: Lead with humility and respect, delight our customers, raise the bar, create immense value, and act as a true owner,going above and beyond to do the right thing for our company while having fun along the way.  ## Requirements  * Leadership Experience: 5+ years as an Engineering Manager, Technical / Team lead, or Architect in an enterprise or high-growth SaaS environment. * AI-augmented SDLC: A strong command of Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, specifically adapted for AI-integrated development (e.g., managing agent-generated code pipelines and automated testing suites). * Technical Depth: Deep experience managing a mesh of microservices written in Java. Strong command of API fundamentals, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms like SQS/Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, and enterprise data platforms requiring best-in-class performance, scale, security, and availability. * Cloud Native Stack: Experience with container-orchestration based delivery paradigms, preferably Kubernetes, and experience with modern SaaS toolchain in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS. * Operational Track Record: Experience defining and maintaining SLAs/SLOs and navigating modern observability toolchains. * Compliance & Security: Experience operating within regulated compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001. * Management Philosophy: A proclivity to "lead from the front" through continuous improvement in people, process, and technology, combined with humility to empower your team to take true ownership.  ## Benefits  * Flexible work hours and flexible PTO * Competitive health benefits * VGS stock options * 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees) * Life & disability insurance * Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees) * Global parental leave program * Employee Assistance Program * Home Internet reimbursement * New hire home office set-up allowance * Professional learning reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- AI-augmented development methodologies
- Agile
- DevOps
- SRE practices
- Java
- API fundamentals
- event-driven architectures
- messaging platforms
- SQL/NoSQL databases
- enterprise data platforms
- container-orchestration based delivery paradigms
- Kubernetes
- modern SaaS toolchain
- public cloud environment
- AWS
- SLAs/SLOs
- observability toolchains
- regulated compliance frameworks
- SOC2
- PCI-DSS
- ISO27001

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