# Staff Product Engineer

**Company:** [VGS](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vgs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $180k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Payments, Tokenization, API Design, System Architecture, UX Design, Credential Management, Financial Primitives
**Posted:** 2026-06-29

> Staff Product Engineer building and scaling extensions to VGS's core payment tokenization and credential orchestration platform. Requires strong product instincts, payments intuition, and end-to-end ownership in a fast-paced fintech environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Building and scaling extensions on top of our core platform used by the world’s largest enterprises across merchant, acquirer, and card issuer spaces.
- Shipping features iteratively, optimizing for MVP while ensuring scalability into full-fledged customer offerings.
- Setting engineering standards, shaping team culture, and contributing to the product roadmap.
- Working directly with customers, vendors, and partners to understand business problems and solve them with creative, reusable software solutions.
- Contributing to architecture decisions and shaping product direction in payment tokenization, network token management, and credential orchestration.

## Requirements
- Strong product instincts with holistic thinking about UX, API design, and system correctness.
- Experience shipping high-quality software in a fast-paced, product-led environment.
- Optimistic problem-solving mindset to ship features even when others think it’s impossible.
- Comfort working in an agentic engineering environment, understanding benefits and risks of technologies.
- Enthusiasm for working directly with customers and vendors to own solutions end-to-end.
- Intuition for payments, tokenization, and credential management systems (or strong desire and ability to learn quickly).
- Values craft, deep technical knowledge, and delivering great product experiences.
- Thrives working independently and in small, high-ownership teams.

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