About the position
Blackhawk Network is building a digital platform that connects people and brands through innovative payment solutions. We facilitate cross-channel payments via cash-in, cash-out, and mobile payment systems. By leveraging blockchain, smart contracts, serverless technology, and real-time payment systems, we're unlocking access for the next million users through innovation. Our teams work with the world's biggest brands to deliver cutting-edge payment experiences. We're composed of highly talented engineers who value collaboration, mentorship, and technical excellence. If you're passionate about building world-class payment applications and pushing the boundaries of scale and availability in the cloud, this role is for you. Join our innovative Engineering team to build the next generation of payment systems on public cloud infrastructure. You'll work on high-scale, high-precision systems that serve millions of merchants worldwide, stretching the limits of backend technologies while leveraging cutting-edge cloud and application stacks.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- 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 prioritizes 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
Nice-to-haves
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- 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
- Flexible time off for all full-time employees
