United States onlyAbout 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 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.
- 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 create great product requirements.
- Mentor team members on good coding practices and patterns
Qualifications
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies. Expert in Core Java 11 or above.
- Hands-on experience in using relational database with good exposure to SQL.
- 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.
Benefits
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 throughout the year 2025, sick pay accrual according to state law, 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.
EEO Statement
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.
