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. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most cutting-edge 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. 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. We're helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving.

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. AWS, Kubernetes, Java, TypeScript, Python) and world-class AI-augmented SDLC tooling.

Ownership of Outcomes: Scaling global payments infrastructure requires individuals who take personal ownership of outcomes from day one. 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.

We’re building payment infrastructure for a world where AI agents don’t just recommend, search, and summarize. The Agentic API is creating the secure backend layer that enables trusted agents to initiate purchases, operate within user-approved mandates, retrieve scoped payment credentials, and complete transactions without exposing raw card data.



As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll help pioneer a new category of payment infrastructure at the intersection of AI, card networks, cryptography, and secure money movement, building clean, reliable APIs for the next generation of commerce.

Architect Agentic Payment Infrastructure: Lead the design and evolution of Python 3.13+ and FastAPI services powering secure, production-critical agentic payment flows. Drive architectural decisions across security, scalability, availability, performance, and developer experience for sensitive payment and cryptographic workflows.

Set the Quality Bar: Define rigorous unit, integration, acceptance, and end-to-end testing strategies for high-risk payment flows, including canary-safe production validation.

Lead Complex Initiatives: Lead technical design reviews, surface architectural and delivery risks early, and drive cross-functional initiatives from initial exploration through reliable production operation. Pioneer AI-Native Engineering: Apply AI-assisted development and agentic workflows across the SDLC to accelerate prototyping, testing, refactoring, investigation, and delivery while maintaining a high quality and security bar.

Partner Across the Ecosystem: Collaborate with Product, Security, Infrastructure, Platform, and external card-network partners to translate evolving requirements into secure, scalable systems.

Ownership at Scale: 10+ years of experience taking personal ownership of outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments. AWS & Infrastructure-as-Code: Advanced proficiency in AWS ecosystems leveraging Terraform to build reproducible environments.



Strong coding skills in Python to automate infrastructure and build operational tools.

Security & Networking Foundations: Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation, viewing security as a fundamental engineering constraint, not an afterthought.

Experience applying AI developer tools or agentic automation to day-to-day engineering workflows. We're looking for passionate professionals who take pride in their craft and want to help grow a team tackling some of the most critical problems in payments. If you're driven to make a meaningful impact, work at the leading edge of payment technology, and grow your career alongside a team that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning, you'll feel right at home at VGS. $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 ~ Office set-up stipend (applies to US only) Insurance (medical, dental, and vision) Life and disability insurance Vacation and time off Flexible PTO Paid national holidays Global parental leave program Office life and perks Remote and hybrid opportunities Flexible working hours Weekly office lunches 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). We are currently hiring in the following locations:

📌 Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (Remote) (Ottawa)
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📍 Ottawa