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You will own the quality strategy for payment systems by building automated guardrails and high-concurrency performance testing frameworks. You will also pioneer AI-native engineering methodologies to enhance testing velocity and ensure platform reliability.
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in quality engineering and test automation for high-throughput distributed systems. Proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript and experience with cloud-native CI/CD pipelines are required.
VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust.
That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce. We store more than 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce. That scale isn't incidental. It's why leading companies embed our universal token vault and credential management platform directly into their stack, taming the complexity of payment data so they can move faster.
Come build the platform that enables modern payments for the world's largest companies. We're helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving. And that takes exceptional people.
Trusted Engineering That Matters
Engineering at VGS
VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. VGS Engineering is the pillar that supports that vision. We create a platform that is an indispensable, ubiquitous component of our partners' payments and security infrastructure. We build and operate high-scale, reliable, and resilient systems that manage mission-critical payment data across the globe. We don't just participate in the payments ecosystem; we power it.
Our Environment & Culture
Modern Tooling as Leverage: We value speed and impact. To ensure nothing slows you down, we arm you with a highly consistent modern stack (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Java, TypeScript, Python) and world-class AI-augmented SDLC tooling. We strip away the friction so you can focus on the problems that demand creativity and judgment.
Ownership of Outcomes: Scaling global payments infrastructure requires individuals who take personal ownership of outcomes from day one. We look for builders who combine high agency with deep strategic alignment; channeling their urgency and relentless iteration into what matters most.
Mission-Critical Accountability: We power payments infrastructure for global market leaders, making system trust and integrity our core deliverable. We don't treat compliance (PCI, SOC2, ISO27001), security patching, and platform maintenance as administrative overhead—we engineer them with first-class product discipline. In payments infrastructure, reliability is not background work, it’s part of what customers buy.
Learn More: See how our engineering practices drive trust and innovation in our official blog and our reliability practices.
As a Sr. Software Engineer, Payments Quality, you will serve as a key technical practitioner and quality champion on our Payments Engineering team. You will take ownership of setting, building, and enforcing world-class quality standards across our core payment systems. In this role, you will write software for robust AI-assisted quality strategies covering end-to-end automated regression suites and high-concurrency performance and load testing.
Working closely with feature development engineers, Tech Leads, and Product Management, you will ensure our mission-critical, high-throughput payment platform and applications operate with zero downtime and flawless accuracy. Rather than relying on manual QA or traditional top-down testing scripts, you will leverage AI-native engineering methodologies and integrate test automation across the entire SDLC. You will also be building emulators for external systems, such as card networks and other partner integrations. We are looking for hands-on builders who refuse to settle for the status quo, hate manual friction, and take immense pride in fortifying enterprise-grade financial systems for scalability, reliability, and security.
Architect and Embed Quality Benchmarks: Own the overarching quality strategy for Payments Acceptance, building automated guardrails so seamlessly into our pipelines that rigorous end-to-end validation happens automatically, without slowing down feature teams, accelerating release cycles.
Drive Performance & Stress Testing: Architect and execute high-concurrency load, stress, and latency testing to stress-test payment pipelines under extreme transaction volumes. You own the mission of ensuring our platform never drops transactions or degrades in latency during peak periods..
Pioneer AI-Native Software Engineering focused on Quality: Actively integrate AI-assisted developer tools and agentic workflows into test creation, synthetic data generation, and automated edge-case analysis to multiply testing velocity. Build high performance emulators for external systems.
Deep Observability & Incident Prevention: Implement robust telemetry and telemetry-driven test environments using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system behavior under load, driving blameless post-mortems and proactive bug prevention.
Cross-Functional Velocity & Mentorship: Partner with feature teams to build "Golden Paths" for automated testing, ensuring engineers can validate code rapidly with high confidence. Mentor team members on quality engineering best practices.
Ownership in Quality Engineering: 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on quality engineering, test automation framework design, and performance testing for complex, high-throughput distributed systems.
Automation & Scripting Mastery: Deep hands-on experience building automated test suites in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript, with a strong command of REST API testing and microservices validation.
Performance & Load Testing Depth: Proven track record designing and running performance, stress, and load tests at scale using tools like JMeter, Locust, Gatling, or k6.
CI/CD & Cloud-Native Toolchains: Direct experience embedding automated quality gates into modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitOps) within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) on public clouds (AWS).
Data & Messaging Validation: Experience testing event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS) and relational/NoSQL databases, ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity under load.
High-Agency Mindset: An innate drive to eliminate manual friction, proactively seek out edge cases, and acquire whatever missing domain context is needed to solve complex quality challenges end-to-end.
Nice to Have:
Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
BA/BS degree
A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
Domain expertise in 3DS, Network Tokens, Account Updater, or payment gateway integrations.
Experience with AI developer tools, LLM-generated test automation pipelines, or synthetic test data generation.
Practical knowledge of compliance and cloud security constraints (PCI-DSS, SOC2).
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At VGS, we embrace 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 are about connection, collaboration, and the energy that comes from a great brainstorm, a team lunch, or celebrating a big win in person.
Financial and retirement
Competitive salary
401(k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting (applies to US only)
Early equity
Internet stipend
Learning stipend
Office set-up stipend (applies to US only)
Health and Wellness
Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
HSA/FSA options
Life and disability insurance
Pet insurance
Vacation and time off
Flexible PTO
Paid national holidays
Global parental leave program
Professional Development
Promote from within
Lunch and learns
Team events and summits
Office life and perks
Remote and hybrid opportunities
Flexible working hours
Weekly office lunches
Employee discount platform
We consider all 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 applicable local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).
Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for this position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
We are currently hiring in the following locations: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Ontario (Canada), Alberta (Canada), and British Columbia (Canada).
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The World's Leader in Payment Tokenization
Founded in 2015, VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization and a trusted credential management platform, depended on by Fortune 500 companies, merchants, fintechs, and banks alike. Our mission is to revolutionize the way sensitive data is stored and secured, enabling organizations to manage information across cards, bank accounts, and digital wallets with ease. VGS stores sensitive data and tackles critical payment acceptance challenges such as multi-PSP management, card issuance, payment orchestration enablement, PCI compliance, and the protection of personally identifiable information (PII). We provide our clients with complete ownership, control, and insights into their payment data, driving growth and enhancing user experiences across industries. VGS offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including a composable Card Management Platform, a PCI-compliant Vault, and advanced network value-added services such as Network Tokens, Account Updater, and Card Attributes. Our innovative technologies empower businesses to boost revenue through higher authorization rates, reduce fraud, and streamline operations—all while seamlessly integrating with existing tech stacks. At VGS, we're not just securing payments—we're empowering businesses to unlock new possibilities in the ever-evolving payment landscape.
Offices: 207 Powell St, Suite 200, San Francisco, California 94102, US
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