Staff Product Engineer

VGS

Product Engineer extending and evolving the VGS Platform for payment credential orchestration. Collaborating with clients to build fault-tolerant financial primitives swiftly and effectively.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeCalifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and scaling software solutions, particularly in payment tokenization and credential management. Possesses strong product instincts with a focus on UX and API design, while thriving in a collaborative, high-ownership engineering environment.

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Payment TokenizationCredential Management SystemsAPI DesignHigh-Quality Software DeliveryCustomer Engagement

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureFeature ShippingUX DesignProduct Roadmap Contribution

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingOptimismCollaborationIndependenceTeam Culture Shaping

Industry Keywords

Payment SolutionsMerchant ServicesAcquirerCard IssuerToken Management

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Building and scaling extensions on top of our core platform which is already used by the world’s largest enterprises across the merchant, acquirer, and card issuer spaces.
Shipping features iteratively, in a way that optimizes both for the MVP, and can be scaled into a full-fledged customer offering.
Setting engineering standards, shaping the team culture, and contributing to our roadmap.
Working directly with customers, vendors, and partners to understand and figure out how we can solve their business problems with creative software solutions that are reusable across our customer base.
Contributing to architecture decisions and shaping our product direction in payment tokenization, network token management, and credential orchestration.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Has strong product instincts and thinks holistically about UX, API design, and system correctness.
Has experience shipping high-quality software in a fast-paced, product-led environment.
Is optimistic enough to find a way to solve problems and ship features - even if others think it can't be done.
Loves working in an agentic engineering environment, and understands both the benefits and the risks of the technologies.
Doesn’t shy away from working with customers and vendors directly to solve problems, but rather revels in the opportunity to own something end to end.
Has an intuition for payments, tokenization, and credential management systems, or a strong desire and ability to learn quickly.
Cares about craft, values deep technical knowledge, and delivers great product experiences.
Thrives working independently and in small, high-ownership teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Ownership of product-critical surfaces at the world's leading payment tokenization platform
High autonomy and a culture that rewards initiative and intuition
Direct impact on a product used by Fortune 500 companies and the world's fastest-growing fintechs
Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
Competitive health benefits
VGS stock options
401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
Life & disability insurance
Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
Global parental leave program
Employee Assistance Program
Home Internet reimbursement
New hire home office set-up allowance
Professional learning reimbursement