Software Engineer

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:

You will build a world class payments platform, that has high scale, precision and availability requirements. You will be part of a brilliant team delivering awesome features to internal and external customers. 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 payment systems such as Chase and Adyen.

Responsibilities:

Write clean, reusable code that’s easy to read and test.

• Build products that perform, scale, are highly available and fault tolerant with automated failover capabilities.
• Operate and scale a rapidly growing product that is vital to our partners.
• 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 deliver high value capabilities to the platform.
  
  

Qualifications:

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies. Expert in Core Java 8 or above.
• Hands-on experience in using relational database with good exposure to SQL OR nosql DB such as MongoDB.
• 2 years 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.
• 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.
  
  

Preferred:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2.
• Experience with container-based application development using Docker/ Kubernetes.