Senior Engineering Manager

VGS
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Strategic thinking","Mentoring","Problem-solving"]

Senior Engineering Manager leading AI-native, backend-focused payments platforms. You will shape the roadmap with Product, mentor an 8–10 person team, oversee architectural decisions, manage incidents and security/compliance in a high-growth SaaS fintech, and partner across orgs to ensure scalable, secure production systems while elevating engineering excellence.

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3 months ago

Senior Engineering Manager

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Job Summary

Senior Engineering Manager leading AI-native, backend-focused payments platforms. You will shape the roadmap with Product, mentor an 8–10 person team, oversee architectural decisions, manage incidents and security/compliance in a high-growth SaaS fintech, and partner across orgs to ensure scalable, secure production systems while elevating engineering excellence.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive AI-Native Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of services using AI-augmented development methodologies, including design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and operate in production.
  • •Architectural Oversight: Partner with CTO/Tech Leads to drive design choices, ensuring consistency with established patterns while remaining innovative.
  • •Lead from the Front: Hire, coach, and mentor a high-performing team and foster a culture of engineering excellence and ownership.
  • •Operational Excellence: Manage incidents, vulnerabilities, and defects with a focus on resilient, self-healing systems.
  • •Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Payments Foundations, Sustaining, Infrastructure, Shared Services and Security to remove dependencies and enable production readiness.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquity401kHealth InsuranceParental Leave

Key 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: Strong command of Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices tailored 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, with API fundamentals, event-driven architectures, and Kafka/SQS, plus SQL/NoSQL databases and enterprise data platforms for performance, scale, security, and availability.
  • •Cloud Native Stack: Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and modern SaaS toolchains in AWS.
  • •Operational Track Record: Experience defining and maintaining SLAs/SLOs and using modern observability toolchains.
  • •Compliance & Security: Experience with SOC2, PCI-DSS, ISO27001 frameworks.
Experience:5+ yearsFintechSaaS
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingMentoringProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaAPIKafkaSQSSQLNoSQLKubernetesAWSDevOpsSREObservabilityPCI-DSSSOC2ISO27001AI

Company Brief

VGS
Provides data security and privacy infrastructure that lets companies collect, store, and use sensitive data without touching or storing it, using tokenization and secure data vaulting to minimize compliance scope.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2016
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