Blackhawk Network · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer
Pleasanton, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$134K/yr - $181K/yr
8+ years expBlackhawk Network is a leading provider of branded payment solutions, helping businesses grow revenue and engage consumers through innovative technology. The Staff Software Engineer will play a key role in delivering fault-tolerant back-office systems and will be responsible for developing cloud-based transaction-processing solutions using AWS and other technologies.
E-CommerceFinanceFinancial ServicesPayments
Responsibilities
Provide software engineering life-cycle ownership of Blackhawk products and technologies
Develop AWS cloud-based transaction-processing solutions using traditional and emerging technologies
Develop products that perform, scale, are highly available and fault tolerant with automated failover capabilities
Create systems that can be easily triaged to find performance bottlenecks and root cause analysis of failure scenarios
Create understandable and automated product deployment mechanisms for development, QA, and production environments
Participate in standard scrum process including daily stand-up meetings, iteration planning, story grooming, etc
Contribute novel ideas and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver and improve Blackhawk systems
Interface with and influence product architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to create great technical requirements and evaluate solutions (in-house or vendor)
Qualification
Required
8+ years of Java application development utilizing data persistence environments
Hands-on experience in development on large high performance transaction processing systems
Hands-on experience in development experience in multithreaded programming
Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Kinesis, RDS, EC2, etc
Hands-on experience in continuous integration tools and pipelines in Jenkins
Efficiency in designing and implementing a highly secure and robust platform
Expert knowledge in service-oriented architecture and REST service knowledge
Demonstrable solution design for performance and scalability
Skilled at performance testing and JVM tuning
Able to work autonomously and collaborate with a global team (India and Europe)
Experience in developing products in an agile environment using Scrum/Kanban methods
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
Experience in settlement and accounting domains
Experience with the database technologies defined and writing complex queries: MYSQL and NO-SQL databases
Candidates who demonstrate curiosity and adaptability in emerging technologies
Successfully implemented and utilized AI tools to enhance their work, improve processes, or deliver measurable results
Benefits
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
Company
Blackhawk Network
Blackhawk Network, Inc. provides prepaid and payments products in the United States and Canada.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2018-01-01Post Ipo Equity
2013-04-19IPO
Leadership Team
Ron Pragides
Vice President of Engineering
Nik Sathe
Chief Product and Technology Officer
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