Payment Systems Engineer

Location: Lincolnshire, IL, Chicago, IL

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Payment Systems Engineer

Location: Lincolnshire, IL (Hybrid)
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:

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