Sr. Software Engineer - ELS

About Blackhawk Network

Blackhawk Network is building a digital platform and products that bring people and brands together. We facilitate cross channel payments via cash-in, cash-out and mobile payments. By leveraging blockchain, smart contracts, serverless technology, real time payment systems, we are unlocking the next million users through innovation.

Our employees are our biggest assets! Come find out how we engage, with the biggest brands in the world. We look for people who collaborate, who are inspirational, who have passion that can make a difference by working as a team while striving for global excellence. You can expect a strong investment in your professional growth, and a dedication to crafting a successful, sustainable career for you. Our teams are composed of highly talented and passionate 'A' players, who are also invested in mentoring and enabling the best qualities. Our vibrant culture and high expectations will kindle your passion and bring out the best in you!

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.

Qualifications

5+ years of solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies. Highly experienced in Core Java 8 or above and in concurrent/parallel programming.

Hands-on experience in using relational database with good exposure to SQL.

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 and ability to articulate things in a clear and concise manner.

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.

Unix scripting skills.

Full Time