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Blackhawk Network (BHN) is a global fintech platform enabling businesses to access the world's largest network of branded payment solutions. The company facilitates gift cards, egifts, corporate payouts, rewards, and cross-channel payments (cash-in, cash-out, mobile) leveraging blockchain, smart contracts, serverless technology, and real-time payment systems.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own end-to-end design and delivery of medium-to-large features and services. You'll handle technical ambiguity, make architectural decisions within your team's scope, mentor junior engineers, and drive implementation from requirements through production. This is a hands-on technical role with significant influence over product architecture, though not organization-wide technical strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Ownership: Own design and delivery of medium-to-large features and services. Break down ambiguous business requirements into technical solutions. Drive implementation decisions within assigned services and product areas. Ensure systems meet reliability, scalability, security, and performance requirements.
Full Stack Development: Design and build backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems. Develop and maintain frontend applications using React and TypeScript. Improve application architecture and maintainability.
AI & Automation: Design and implement AI-enabled product capabilities. Build workflow automation solutions and business process integrations. Design and implement RAG-based applications and intelligent search solutions. Evaluate tradeoffs when integrating AI into products. Guide teams on practical AI implementation approaches.
Reliability & Operations: Troubleshoot complex production issues. Drive root cause analysis and long-term fixes. Improve observability, monitoring, and operational readiness. Optimize system performance and cost.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers. Conduct code reviews and design reviews. Share technical knowledge and engineering best practices.
Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to refine requirements. Identify missing requirements and non-functional requirements. Participate in architecture discussions and technical planning.
Requirements:
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience: 4–7 years required.
Backend Skills: Strong Java Spring Boot and/or Python. Microservices. Distributed systems. SQL and NoSQL databases. Redis. Kafka.
Frontend Skills: React. TypeScript. Frontend architecture. Performance optimization.
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, or GCP. Docker. CI/CD. ECS.
System Design: Scalability. Reliability. Security. Performance optimization. Tradeoff analysis.
AI Exposure: Hands-on experience delivering one or more of the following: AI-enabled product features, LLM integrations, workflow automation, RAG applications, AI assistants, intelligent document processing.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
