Sr. Software Engineer, Payments

Medium; Canada Creek; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to develop and maintain payment services. The role involves working with Java and the Spring Framework, Kafka, cloud-native architectures, and more. Join a team that values collaboration and innovation while enjoying flexible work hours. This position offers a salary range of $140,000 - $180,000 annually.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Competitive health benefits

Stock options

401k plan with employer matching

Home Internet reimbursement

Professional learning reimbursement

Global parental leave program

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Framework.
• Strong experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and microservices.
• Implementing observability solutions using tools like Grafana.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage in all phases of the software lifecycle, from design to support.
• Maintain a culture of code quality through testing and reviews.
• Be proactive and innovative in building a world-class product.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Kafka

Microservices

Cloud-native architecture

APIs

Kubernetes

AWS services

Observability solutions

Python

Job description

VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization. Large banks, aspiring fintechs, and growing merchants embed our universal token vault into their technology stack to manage the complexities of payment data tokenization across processors and networks, open banking, card issuance, omnichannel loyalty, PCI compliance, payment orchestration, and more. We empower our clients and partners by tokenizing sensitive payment data, limiting compliance scope, and consolidating payments to unlock revenue and business opportunities.

VGS provides processor-agnostic tokenization solutions via secure universal token vaults, iframes, mobile SDKs, tokenization proxies, APIs, and data orchestration tooling to support payment acceptance, card issuance, PII and bank account tokenization, and other payments value-added services. Some of the use cases we enable include multi-processor Network Tokenization, Account Updater, payment orchestration, secure settlement file processing, 3DS, and Risk provider connectivity.

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Sr. Software Engineer to join us. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining our Payments services. In addition, this role will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our Card Attributes, Webhooks and Event Pipeline. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and optimize high-throughput, fault‑tolerant services within the VGS platform.

You will likely be successful in this role if you identify with the following traits: attention to detail, problem solver, customer-oriented, versatile, resilient, and confident. If all of this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you.

What you will be doing at VGS

• Engage in all phases of the software lifecycle — design, implement, test, deploy, and support services in production.
• Maintain a culture of code quality through rigorous testing, automation, and code reviews.
• Be proactive and innovative — we rely on your feedback to build a world‑class product.
• Be a part of a team that believes in the core values of transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility; in going above and beyond what is required to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and in having fun while doing all this!

What we are looking for from you (Requirements)

• Deep hands‑on expertise (6+ years) in Java and the Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Security, etc.) for building high‑scale, production‑ready microservices in a SaaS company.
• Strong practical experience working with Kafka (MSK) or other message brokers for building event‑driven architectures and handling high‑volume data streams.
• Solid understanding and hands‑on experience working with cloud‑native architecture, microservices, CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Python, and AWS services.
• Strong experience implementing and leveraging Observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) using tools like Open Telemetry, Grafana and Prometheus to diagnose and resolve production issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bonus points if you have familiarity with the payment processing ecosystem (PCI DSS, tokenization, card networks, processors).

$140,000 - $180,000 a year

What you get from us

• 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

At VGS, we have a remote‑first philosophy because we believe flexibility leads to great work and a healthy work‑life balance. That said, if you live within 30 miles of one of our office locations, you’ll be on a hybrid schedule with some in‑person time — because we know there’s real value in coming together.

We’re not about being in the office every day — we’re about connection, collaboration, and the energy that comes from a great brainstorm, a team lunch, or celebrating a big win in person.

We consider applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or other protected classes under all local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).

Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

VGS will not be able to provide any kind of employment sponsorship at this time.

Please note we are currently only hiring in the following states

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington