Staff Software Engineer, Python

Company Overview

Very Good Security (“VGS”) makes it easy for customers to collect, protect and share sensitive financial data in a way that accelerates revenue, eliminates risk, ensures compliance, and drives profitability. We are on a mission to protect the world’s payment information and are seeking global talent to support our portfolio of payment security solutions including VGS Vault, PCI Compliance as a Service (PCIaaS), Payment Optimization, and Card Issuance Products.

Job Opportunity

We are looking for a well-versed and passionate Staff Software Engineer for our Managed File Tokenization (MFT) team, which is responsible for mission-critical asynchronous file-base tokenization processing. This position will report to the Engineering Manager, MFT.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in hands-on python software development preferably in a product company
• Hands-on experience in software architecture, design and development in a Cloud SaaS environment
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Python, Java
• Strong experience or knowledge on AWS services such as Lambda, S3, EKS, MKS, KMS
• Strong experience or knowledge of workflow / orchestration engines, preferably Airflow (AWS MWAA) and/or Dagster
• Strong experience in Observability solutions using AWS Cloud Watch, Grafana, Prometheus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Engage in all phases of the software lifecycle- design, implement, test, deploy, and support services in production
• Produce clear, detailed and actionable design documents, and architectural decisions with context, decision and tradeoffs
• Collaborate and communicate with Product, Customer Success team, Platform Engineering teams
• Maintain a culture of code quality through rigorous testing, automation, and code reviews
• Be proactive and innovative - we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product
• Be a part of a team that believes in the core values of transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility

Benefits

• 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 setup allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement