# Senior Manager, Engineering

**Company:** [VGS](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vgs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $180k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, Agile, DevOps, SRE, SQS, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, Slas, SLOs, Observability, Soc2
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Lead a team of 8-10 backend engineers building enterprise-grade payments value-added services (Network Tokens, Account Updater, 3DS). Drive AI-augmented engineering practices, architecture, and operational excellence in a regulated environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive AI-Native Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of services using AI-augmented development methodologies, shifting how services are designed, built, tested, deployed, monitored, and operated.
- Strategic Partnership: Partner with Product Management to define the feature roadmap, prioritizing security, performance, and scalability alongside new value-added services.
- Lead from the Front: Hire, coach, and mentor a high-performing team of 8–10 engineers; act as a culture-builder who raises the bar for engineering excellence.
- Architectural Oversight: Collaborate with the CTO and Tech Leads to drive design choices, ensuring services follow established patterns while remaining innovative.
- Operational Excellence: Manage unplanned workstreams (incidents, vulnerabilities, defects) with focus on building resilient, self-healing systems.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Payments Acceptance Foundations, Sustaining, Infrastructure, Shared Services, and Security teams to resolve dependencies.
- Cultivate Code Quality: Foster a rigorous engineering culture centered on comprehensive testing, automation, and robust code reviews tailored for AI-augmented workflows.

## Requirements
- 5+ years as an Engineering Manager, Technical/Team Lead, or Architect in an enterprise or high-growth SaaS environment.
- Strong command of Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices adapted for AI-integrated development (e.g., managing agent-generated code pipelines and automated testing suites).
- Deep experience managing a mesh of microservices written in Java.
- Strong command of API fundamentals, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms (SQS/Kafka), SQL/NoSQL databases, and enterprise data platforms.
- Experience with container-orchestration delivery paradigms (preferably Kubernetes) and modern SaaS toolchain in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS).
- Experience defining and maintaining SLAs/SLOs and navigating modern observability toolchains.
- Experience operating within regulated compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001.
- Leadership philosophy focused on "leading from the front" through continuous improvement in people, process, and technology, with humility to empower team ownership.

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