Purpose in Every Position.
At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.
Where Your Work Moves the Needle.
At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.
✔️Doing the Right Thing
Making authentic, values-driven decisions that build trust—even when no one is watching.
✔️Winning as a Team
Collaborating across diverse perspectives and skill sets to achieve shared goals and celebrate collective success.
✔️Leading with Curiosity
Asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new possibilities to drive innovation.
✔️Connecting with Empathy
Valuing each person’s unique background and perspective to build an inclusive culture that fosters belonging and creativity.
✔️Driving for Impact
Staying tenacious, customer-focused, and committed to delivering results that make a real difference.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
We are looking for a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to join our rapidly growing Technology team. This high-profile role will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design, and features for the core software platform. We are a nimble team with a game-changing mindset, endless passion, and uncompromising user focus. We operate like a start-up yet have the resources we need to deliver on our goals.
We are looking for a high-performing and motivated leader who can challenge the status quo to drive software innovation. By leading this team, you will have the opportunity to significantly impact our systems, our business, and, most importantly, our customers by building highly scalable, reliable, and extensible systems. You’ll be expected to deliver quickly and iteratively in an agile environment while providing mentorship and leadership to your team members as they build a world-class platform to disrupt the future of work.
This role will be based in Palo Alto, California, and in-office collaboration is required for at least one day per week.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- Be able to shepherd an organization of industry-leading software engineers to drive the realization of our technology vision and strategy
- Recruit top-notch talent to join our existing team while mentoring and growing high-potential leaders within the organization
- Partner with product management and other leaders to understand business drivers and the competitive landscape to define organizational priorities and strategies for product development
- Think big and be bold, monitoring and understanding technology trends and identifying appropriate methods to incorporate them into future products and technology
- Cultivate an atmosphere of continuous improvement, using objective metrics to constantly raise the bar on execution excellence
- Keep the team connected across locations and multiple strategic initiatives.
- Identify and navigate organizational change with a keen interest in international trends in engineering and leadership, continuously cultivating positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Work with DevOps on high observability to ensure stability and performance of all products and technology we build
- Be flexible to work on front end and back end technologies, primarily NodeJS and Java.
Let’s Connect If You:
- Bachelor's (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field such as physics or mathematics, or equivalent technical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in product development leadership with prior hands-on experience
- Proven track record of building and delivering high-quality, scalable SaaS products, and platforms
- A passion for adopting modern software development practices to foster creativity, flow, and on-time delivery
- Hands-on expertise in core technology patterns such as authentication & authorization systems, single-page application architectures, API frameworks (REST, GraphQL), persistence stores, and real-time messaging frameworks hosted on public clouds like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- A natural leader with the ability to organize and inspire others, providing an environment for learning and growth
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and manage geographically and culturally diverse teams
- Proven ability to provide open and frequent communication across the organization to facilitate product adoption
- Experience managing a budget, balancing priorities, and making tough decisions backed by data
Our Commitment to You
At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
- Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
- Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
Please visit our career page for more information.
