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

At Blackhawk Network, you’ll enjoy the best of both worlds—focused remote work plus in-person collaboration on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, our regular in-office days at our Pleasanton headquarters. This rhythm gives you the tools, connection, and autonomy you need to make a real impact.

As an Engineer in the Platform Transactions domain, you will help deliver world-class rewards and service to our customers. This role requires passion for our people, customers, business, and technology. We expect Engineers to innovate and take risks while mitigating impact to stakeholders. We expect learning and growth to be lifelong and mentoring to be a daily practice. We want to approach challenges directly and be transparent about issues as they arise so we can work together to overcome them.

In this role, you'll work with passionate, dedicated Engineers to build value into an organization that is committed to being the best in the industry. Your experience, drive, and passion for learning will be valuable to the team; you will support building quality, secure functionality, as you learn and grow in your craft with guidance from experienced, passionate Engineers. You'll be given opportunities to apply and refine your skills and will be expected to deliver results, contributing to the BHN technical community.

This position can be located in either Pleasanton, CA or Coppell, TX.

• Build different parts of our payment network that have high scale, precision and availability requirements.
• Serve on a world-class team delivering awesome features to Blackhawk consumers and partners. Stretch the limits of backend technologies to deliver functionality.
• Leverage cutting edge technologies on the cloud, and application stacks to build efficient systems.
• Be a team player that can learn and coach simultaneously.
• Innovate and build relationships with the world's best payments systems while helping them realize their visions.
• Play an essential part in how developers build state‑of‑the‑art payment experiences that consumers love.
• 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.

• 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.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)…