Remote Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Payments

Verygoodsecurity; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 230,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and hybrid opportunities

Flexible working hours

Weekly office lunches

Employee discount platform

Job summary

Verygoodsecurity is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering in San Francisco to lead Payments Acceptance engineering, guiding an autonomous team focused on expanding high-impact Value-Added Services such as Network Tokens and 3DS.

You will partner with Product, CTO, and platform teams to shape the future of our core payments platform, driving strategy, AI-native engineering practices, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing, leading, or architecting high-throughput engineering teams.
• Deep familiarity with modern Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, specifically AI-native workflows.
• Proven expertise managing distributed Java microservices; strong in REST APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka/SQS), and relational/NoSQL databases.
• Direct experience delivering containerized applications (Kubernetes, Docker) in AWS with telemetry and observability stacks.
• Lead from the front with ownership, removing cross-team friction and driving accountability across teams.
• Solid understanding of operating within regulated environments (PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001) as engineering constraints.

Responsibilities

• Pioneer AI-Native Engineering: Lead AI-augmented SDLC practices and agentic workflows to increase velocity.
• Drive Engineering Excellence & Velocity: Enforce code quality, CI, automated testing, and blameless operations.
• Strategic Roadmap Execution: Align technical strategy with business goals with Product/Architecture leadership.
• Build & Elevate High-Performing Teams: Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent with clear expectations.
• System Resiliency & Operations: Set availability, performance, and security standards for a mission-critical Java microservices stack.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

AI-Augmented SDLC

Distributed Systems

Cloud-Native Mastery

High-Agency Management Style

Security & Compliance Foundations

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

REST APIs

Kafka/SQS

SQL/NoSQL Databases

Job description

Verygoodsecurity is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering in San Francisco to lead Payments Acceptance engineering, guiding an autonomous team focused on expanding high-impact Value-Added Services such as Network Tokens and 3DS.

You will partner with Product, CTO, and platform teams to shape the future of our core payments platform, driving strategy, AI-native engineering practices, and enterprise-grade reliability.