Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven, Remote, Payments

Verygoodsecurity; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Stock options

401k match

Health benefits

Life & disability insurance

FSA/Healthcare FSA

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Home internet reimbursement

Home office setup allowance

Learning reimbursement

Job summary

VGS is a remote-first company hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale mission-critical applications handling 1,000+ TPS in a SaaS environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Cloud Platform teams to shape roadmaps, own AI-assisted SDLC, ensure code quality, and optimize for performance and resiliency.

We value transparency, grit, and ownership. The role supports US-based applicants with remote-first options and hybrid opportunities; visa sponsorship is not provided.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Java and the Spring Framework building high-scale, production-ready microservices in a SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• Build mission-critical systems with 1,000+ TPS and low latency.
• Partner with Product to shape roadmaps and specs.
• Lead AI-integrated SDLC with AI agents for rapid prototyping and testing.
• Maintain code quality through testing, automation, and standards.
• Optimize for scale and latency in payments infrastructure.
• Collaborate across Product, Security, Cloud Platform, Revenue Ops.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Microservices

Cloud Native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Event-Driven

Tools

AWS

Docker

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Argo

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Kafka/SQS/SNS

EKS

Job description

VGS is a remote-first company hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale mission-critical applications handling 1,000+ TPS in a SaaS environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Cloud Platform teams to shape roadmaps, own AI-assisted SDLC, ensure code quality, and optimize for performance and resiliency.

We value transparency, grit, and ownership. The role supports US-based applicants with remote-first options and hybrid opportunities; visa sponsorship is not provided.