As the Head of Apps Engineering, you will lead a highly technical and distributed customer-facing team of engineers building payment-related services for VGS’s global customers.

What you will be doing at VGS

• Utilize both your strong leadership and technical expertise to guide and enable teams of motivated engineers and be a role model for them. You inspire your teams to reach higher and you’re as good as explaining "why" as you are "how".
• Ensure that your teams are shipping high quality and architecturally-sound software at a cadence that enables the company’s business roadmap. 
• Review code and design, and provide technical oversight and guidance to your team.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain talented software engineers and provide the team with coaching, career mentorship, and regular guidance.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership in defining your team’s roadmap.
• Promote an engineering process that encourages continuous delivery and shipping value to customers frequently while maintaining a relentless focus on security.
• Champion and model core VGS values of collaboration, relentless execution, and transparency; in going above and beyond what is required in order to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and promote a fun, inclusive, open work environment.

What we are looking for from you (Requirements)

• 10+ years of software development experience building ideally in a SaaS/PaaS company building internet-scale infrastructure, and 3+ years of experience in a leadership/people management role that empathizes with customer needs.
• Coding will not be your primary job, but you have extensive experience developing high-quality software, and use that experience to guide your team in producing production-quality code that does not require high effort to operate or maintain.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices, Infrastructure as code, and working experience with Docker and Kubernetes, ideally in a cloud environment.
• An understanding of how to build for scale, but able to make pragmatic choices to move quickly. You must have a strong bias for action!
• Outcome-oriented, and an understanding that providing business value should be the key focus for engineering teams.
• Comfortable working in roles that at times will be customer-facing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Experience successfully working with distributed teams across time zones will be a plus.

What’s unique about VGS

• We’re a quickly scaling company with a startup mindset.
• We love to empower our people to take ownership! You’ll find you are given the freedom and will own the responsibility to be successful here. 
• We’re creating a remote-first philosophy. You’ll have a strong impact on a new cultural shift within the company.

What you get from us

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match  (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

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $180,000 - $225,000 per year. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.