Payment Systems Engineer

  • Lincolnshire, IL · Chicago, IL
  • Full-time
  • POSTED 1 MONTH AGO

About the job

Payment Systems Engineer

Location: Lincolnshire, IL (Hybrid) 3 Days On-site Employment Type: Full-Time Experience: 5–10 Years

About the Role

We’re building a modern, scalable enterprise payments platform to support seamless transactions across in-store POS, e-commerce, mobile, kiosk, and call center channels.

As a Payment Systems Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and scaling payment capabilities. You’ll work closely with Product, Architecture, and other engineers to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing payment solutions.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving real-world problems, working with external payment providers, and shipping production-ready systems.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Development & Integrations

Design, build, and maintain payment services and APIs using C# and.NET/.NET Core

Integrate with payment processors, gateways, acquiring banks, and third-party providers

Support integrations with digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay) and alternative payment methods

Contribute to building a payment abstraction layer that simplifies multi-provider integrations

Implement payment flows including authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, and chargebacks

Payments Functionality & Features

Develop and enhance capabilities such as payment routing, retry logic, and failover handling

Support card-present and card-not-present payment flows (POS, e-commerce, mobile)

Work on mPOS, in-app payments, hosted payment pages, and Text-to-Pay solutions

Implement and maintain integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, and other payment protocols

Reliability & Operations

Monitor and troubleshoot payment transactions and production issues

Improve system performance, scalability, and transaction success rates

Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, implementing fixes and improvements

Contribute to observability through logging, metrics, and alerting

Collaboration & Delivery

Partner with Product and Architecture teams to translate requirements into technical solutions

Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and code reviews

Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

Continuously improve development practices, tooling, and processes

Required Qualifications

5–10 years of software engineering experience

Strong proficiency in C# and.NET/.NET Core

Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs

Hands-on experience integrating with third-party systems or APIs

Familiarity with payment systems or financial transactions

Understanding of secure coding practices and data protection

Experience with relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug production issues

Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with payment gateways, processors, or POS systems

Familiarity with payment concepts such as EMV, tokenization, 3DS, and PCI-DSS

Experience with event-driven systems or messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus)

Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)

Experience with digital wallets and mobile payments

Familiarity with alternative payment methods (ACH, BNPL, real-time payments)

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)

General Compensation Disclosure

The pay range for this role considers several factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Camping World, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the factors stated. A reasonable estimate of the current range is listed below.

Pay Range:

$111,100.00-$170,300.00 Annual In addition to competitive pay, we offer Paid Time Off, 401(k), an Employee Assistance Program, Good Sam Roadside Assistance, discounts, paid parental leave (if eligibility is met), Tuition Reimbursement (if eligibility is met), and on the job training opportunities. Full-time associates are offered a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision and more! Part-time associates are offered access to dental & vision coverage! For more information please visit: www.mycampingworldbenefits.com

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, veteran or uniformed service-member status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.