Staff Software Engineer II

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.

• Design and develop products that perform at scale with high availability, fault tolerance, and automated failover capabilities
• Define complete technical solutions for complex business problems, drive architectural designs, and partner with Principal Engineers during Discovery phases
• Write clean, reusable, testable code and advocate for technical improvements through peer code reviews
• Coach and mentor team members to enhance their effectiveness and technical skills
• Identify and prioritize technical improvements, influence enterprise-wide practices, and bring substantive ideas to leadership
• Proactively influences design to achieve best practices and advocates for technical improvements on the product .
• Contributes to conversations about technical decisions, resulting change to one or more standards within a team, creating influence through peer code reviews.
• Shows initiative and independently execute process improvements for the team.  
• Drive architectural designs for product features and produce artifacts as part of Discovery phase partnering with Principal Engineers
• Communicates with senior stakeholders within the enterprise on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and/or advising; typically has responsibility communicating to parties outside of the organization.  
• Works to influence parties within the enterprise to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Articulates problem statements, sizes opportunities, and brings substantive ideas to leadership on how to improve the organization/product direction 

Required:

• 8 years of experience in back-end engineering, including hands-on leadership roles.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
• Designing high performing APIs with less than 50ms Service Level Agreement (SLA) using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and relational/non-relational database.
• 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(OWASP).
• Ability to differentiate good and bad, design and coding practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong in self-direction, problem solving and critical thinking. Provides technical leadership of large and complex initiatives, defines and implements technical solutions for a business problem with many unknowns.
• Identifies and priorize technical improvements to deliver value while minimizing complexity.
• Guiding technical conversation towards best technical solution, reducing information asymmetry through spirited debate and open/honest conversations.
• Partners with peers to identify and prioritize technical improvements backed by data, industry trends and experience to convince leadership on the best solution for the problems.
• Deep passion for providing high quality customer experiences.
• Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols and web server optimization techniques

Preferred:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2.
• Experience with AI/LLM tools and container-based development (Docker/Kubernetes)
• 2+ years of technology leadership experience in a modern / complex payment environment.

Salary Range for California Residents Only:$157,030.00 to $212,000.00

Salary Range for Illinois Residents Only: $125,100.00 to $168,900.00

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.