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Payment Systems Engineer

Date Posted: Aug 31, 2026
Yearly: USD - USD

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    Location Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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    Apply Before: Nov 29, 2026

Job Description

Overview

About the Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Payment Systems Engineer to help build and scale a modern enterprise payments platform supporting transactions across multiple customer channels, including in-store POS, e-commerce, mobile, kiosk, and call center environments.This is a hands-on software engineering position for someone who enjoys solving complex transaction and integration challenges. You'll work with Product, Architecture, and other engineering teams to design reliable payment services, integrate with external payment providers, and develop capabilities that make payments secure, resilient, scalable, and seamless for customers.The environment is primarily C# and .NET/.NET Core, with a strong emphasis on APIs, third-party integrations, transaction processing, system reliability, and production-ready engineering.This is an excellent opportunity for a strong backend engineer who already has payments experienceor someone with solid transactional systems experience who wants to deepen their expertise in the payments space. What You'll Do Payment Platform Development Design, build, maintain, and enhance payment services and APIs using C# and .NET/.NET Core.Develop backend services supporting payment transactions across POS, e-commerce, mobile, kiosk, and call center channels.Integrate with payment processors, gateways, acquiring banks, and third-party payment providers.Help build and enhance a payment abstraction layer designed to simplify integrations across multiple providers.Develop solutions supporting authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, chargebacks, and other core payment processes.Build scalable, maintainable services capable of supporting high-volume enterprise transaction environments. Payment Integrations & Capabilities Design and maintain integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, and other payment protocols.Support both card-present and card-not-present transaction environments.Develop and enhance payment routing, retry logic, exception handling, and failover capabilities.Support integrations with digital wallets such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay.Contribute to mobile POS, in-app payments, hosted payment pages, and Text-to-Pay capabilities.Support traditional and emerging payment methods as the organization's payments ecosystem continues to evolve. Reliability & Production Support Monitor and troubleshoot payment transactions and production issues.Investigate complex problems spanning internal applications, APIs, external payment providers, and transaction processing systems.Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.Implement permanent fixes and improvements based on production incidents.Improve application performance, scalability, resiliency, and transaction success rates.Enhance system observability through effective logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting. Engineering & Collaboration Partner closely with Product, Architecture, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.Participate in solution design, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and code reviews.Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code.Follow sound software engineering and secure-development practices appropriate for systems handling sensitive financial transactions.Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering standards, development processes, tooling, and system architecture. What We're Looking For Core Qualifications Approximately 510 years of professional software engineering experience.Strong hands-on development experience with C# and .NET/.NET Core.Strong backend software engineering fundamentals.Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.Hands-on experience integrating applications with external platforms, vendors, or third-party APIs.Experience working with relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.Understanding of secure coding practices and protecting sensitive data.Experience troubleshooti

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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