Staff 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.

We are looking to hire an accomplished Staff Software Engineer to join the Blackhawk’s Enterprise System Group. The team is chartered with delivery of innovative and fault tolerant back-office systems for inventory management, card services, controlling approvals/assignments and distribution of products to partners. The ideal candidate should possess demonstrated proficiency in a wide range of skills and experience utilizing core Java, J2EE and database technologies. This role is vital to the success of our in-house systems.

• Provide software engineering life-cycle ownership of Blackhawk products and technologies.
• Develop AWS cloud-based transaction-processing solutions using traditional and emerging technologies.
• Develop products that perform, scale, are highly available and fault tolerant with automated failover capabilities.
• Create systems that can be easily triaged to find performance bottlenecks and root cause analysis of failure scenarios.
• Create understandable and automated product deployment mechanisms for development, QA, and production environments.
• Participate in standard scrum process including daily stand-up meetings, iteration planning, story grooming, etc.
• Contribute novel ideas and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver and improve Blackhawk systems.
• Interface with and influence product architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to create great technical requirements and evaluate solutions (in-house or vendor).

• 7+ years of Java application development utilizing data persistence environments.
• Hands-on experience in development on large high performance transaction processing systems
• Hands-on experience in development experience in multithreaded programming.
• Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Kinesis, RDS, EC2, etc.
• Hands-on experience in continuous integration tools and pipelines in Jenkins.
• Efficiency in designing and implementing a highly secure and robust platform
• Expert knowledge in service-oriented architecture and REST service knowledge.
• Demonstrable solution design for performance and scalability.
• Skilled at performance testing and JVM tuning.
• Experience scripting using multiple of the following: Bash, SQL, Groovy etc.
• Able to work autonomously.
• Experience in developing products in an agile environment using Scrum/Kanban methods
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in settlement and accounting domains
• Experience with the database technologies defined and writing complex queries: MYSQL and NO-SQL databases;

Salary Range for California Residents Only: $133,920.00 to $180,800.00

Salary Range for Illinois Residents Only: $105,770.00 to $142,800.00

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.