Principal Engineer, Payments

VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization. We're looking for a Principal Engineer to play a key role in architecting and building highly available, reliable and scalable payments applications.

Requirements

• 12+ years experience in software architecture, design and development in a Cloud SaaS environment
• Extensive experience in building highly available, reliable and scalable SaaS applications/platforms
• Strong experience in building backend API specs, mocks, and service implementations
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services
• Strong experience in Observability solutions using Grafana and Open Telemetry
• Hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, Configuration Management, and Release Management
• Experience with payments technologies and ecosystem (card networks, PSP integration) is highly preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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