Sr. Software Engineer

Today, through BHN’s single global platform, businesses of all kinds can tap into the world’s largest network of branded payment solutions. BHN helps businesses grow revenue, increase loyalty, motivate and reward their teams, disburse funds and engage consumers. Branded payment solutions include the issuance and distribution of gift cards, egifts, corporate payouts and rewards, along with the technology to deliver these products in seamless, integrated ways. BHN’s network spans the globe with more than 400,000 consumer touchpoints. Learn more at BHN.com.

If you enjoy building world class payment applications, are highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of scale and availability on the cloud, leveraging the next horizon technologies, rapidly deliver features to production, make data driven decisions on product development, collaborate and innovate with like-minded experts, then this would be your ideal job. Blackhawk is seeking passionate backend engineers at all levels to build our next generation of payment systems on a public cloud infrastructure. Our team enjoys working together to contribute to meaningful work seen by millions of merchants worldwide.

What’s in it for you?

You will build different parts of our payment network, that have high scale, precision and availability requirements. You will be part of a world class team delivering awesome features to Blackhawk consumers and partners.  You will stretch the limits of backend technologies to deliver functionality. You will be constantly leveraging cutting edge technologies on the cloud, and application stacks to build efficient systems. You will be an awesome team player that can learn and coach simultaneously.  You will learn to innovate. You will build relationships with the world's best payments systems while you help them realize their visions. Your work will play an essential part in how developers build state of the art payment experiences that consumers love.

• You have good technical skills and always striving to improve.
• You are passionate about creating world-class software and have a customer-first mindset.
• You think positively, focus on solutions, and find opportunities instead of problems.
• You work to influence parties within function to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• You participate in all phases of the product releases and support of the production after launch as a member of the Agile Scrum team.
• You write high-quality code that models around CI/CD best practices adhering to all architectural illities.
• You build products that perform, scale, are highly available and fault tolerant with automated failover capabilities.
• You evangelize and apply good security and performance techniques and effectively leads communications on broad topics.  
• You collaborate with product architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to create great product requirements.
• Considering how standards evolve, you make suggestions for improving code quality more broadly within the team and mentor junior engineers.
• You communicate with senior stakeholders within the enterprise on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and/or advising; and bring observations to management and leadership of potential issues.
• You are a good team player with a positive attitude to contribute at all levels for the team's success.

Required:

• 4 years of solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies and a Bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree or a Ph.D with some experience.
• Highly experienced in Java and in concurrent/parallel programming.
• Hands-on experience in using relational database with good exposure to SQL.
• Strong working experience in Spring framework.
• Strong computational skills, fluent in data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Strong knowledge of computing concepts such as service-oriented architecture, REST services, fault tolerance, self-healing, network protocols, network programming, multi-threaded programming, performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Ability to differentiate good and bad design and coding practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate things in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong in self-direction, problem solving and critical thinking.
• Unix scripting skills.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2.
• Experience with container-based application development using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Ability to work effectively on multiple tasks in parallel and positively manage work in an environment where that can be changes in scope of work and timeline.
• Experience with CICD pipeline.

Preferred:

• Experience and knowledge of Agile scrum methodology.
• Experience working in the Payment Industry on credit/debit transactions and knowledge of ISO 8583 is a big plus.

Salary Range for California Residents Only: $115,800.00 to $156,340.00

Salary Range for Illinois Residents Only: $89,620.00 to $121,000.00

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Blackhawk Network offers benefits including 401k with employer match, medical, dental, vision, 12 paid holidays in the year 2025, 1 hour of sick pay accrual for every 30 hours worked, parental leave, life insurance, disability insurance, accident and illness insurance, health and dependent care flexible spending accounts, wellness benefits, and flexible time off for all full-time employees. 

Blackhawk Network provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.  Blackhawk Network believes that diversity leads to strength. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Blackhawk Network encourages applicants with previous criminal records to apply to all positions and, pursuant to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Acts (and other “Fair Chance” laws), Blackhawk Network will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  For Philadelphia applicants or jobs, please see a copy of Philadelphia’s ordinance on this topic by clicking this link: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/philadelphia/latest/philadelphia_pa/0-0-0-280104.