Senior Software Engineer – Payments

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer – Payments role follows VGS’s remote-first approach; employees within 30 miles of an office location work a hybrid schedule. The listing identifies Mundelein, IL, and compensation is $140,000–$230,000 per year. The role supports the Payments Acceptance team, which builds high-scale payment and security infrastructure. The engineer designs, scales, and strengthens high-throughput payment systems and Value-Added Services. By building reliable services, automating delivery and operations, and partnering across engineering and product teams, the role helps maintain secure, resilient payment processing and improve platform adoption.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and optimize high-availability, low-latency Java microservices
• integrate AI-augmented development tools and agentic workflows into the software development lifecycle
• automate services using GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code
• maintain telemetry and observability tooling
• participate in on-call rotations and lead blameless post-mortems
• partner with cross-functional teams on delivery paths
• mentor engineers and uphold code quality and testing standards
• own service functionality, security, and performance end to end.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

payments

vgs

mundelein il

$140k–$230k/year

java

microservices

payment systems

distributed systems

aws

kubernetes

ai-augmented engineering

on-call rotation

remote-first/hybrid

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• 401(k) with 4% match and immediate vesting for US employees
• equity
• internet, learning, and office setup stipends
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA/FSA
• life, disability, and pet insurance
• flexible PTO
• paid holidays
• parental leave
• professional development.

Why this role

The role includes participation in on-call rotations. VGS describes a remote-first philosophy with hybrid work for employees living within 30 miles of an office.

About the employer

VGS is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.