Software Engineer II

About Blackhawk Network

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.

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, reusable code that’s easier to read and test
• Actively participate in all phases of software engineering including design, development, testing and production release in an Agile environment.
• Build products that perform, scale, are highly available and fault tolerant with automated failover capabilities.
• Contribute novel ideas and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver and improve Blackhawk systems.
• Collaborate with product architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to create great product requirements
• Participate in resolving customer problems effectively through new features as well as improving existing features.

Qualifications

 

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and at least +2 years of related experience, or an advanced degree without experience, or equivalent work experience. 
• Solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies and solid understanding of relational databases.
• Core Java backend skills
• Relational Database experience
• 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.
• Strong in self-direction, problem solving and critical thinking.
• Deep passion for providing high quality customer experiences.
• Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2
• Knowledge of CICD Pipeline

 

Preferred:

• Experience with container-based application development using Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with DevOps skills
• Web server optimization techniques

Benefits

Salary Range for California Residents Only: $118,657.00 to $131,500.00

Salary Range for Illinois Residents Only: $78,220.00 to $101,700.00

 

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 tim