Staff Software Engineer
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Staff Software Engineer
- ID
- 2026-26689
- Category
- Technology
- Position Type
- Full Time
- Location : Location
- IN-KA-Bengaluru
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 BHN.com.
Overview:
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!
If you enjoy building world class payment applications, are highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of scale and availability on the cloud, leveraging the next horizon technologies, rapidly deliver features to production, make data driven decisions on product development, collaborate and innovate with like-minded experts, then this would be your ideal job. Blackhawk is seeking passionate backend engineers at all levels to build our next generation of payment systems on a public cloud infrastructure. Our team enjoys working together to contribute to meaningful work seen by millions of merchants worldwide.
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:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, & enhance large scale software solutions. Must be able to understand the positioning of a solution within the company & to build consensus to effectively gain buy-in from all participants.
- Defines a complete technical solution for a well-defined business problem which aligns to a platform vision. Write clean, reusable code that’s easier to read and test.
- Strategic communication with senior business stakeholders, external technical partners, and industry engineering leaders on technical strategy and architectural roadmap direction. Influences organizational technical priorities and strategic decisions through engineering expertise and thought leadership.
- Drives transformational technical initiatives that impact multiple product lines and business units with autonomous technical decision-making authority. Takes ownership of technical competitive positioning and engineering expansion strategies while leading cross-functional technical transformation efforts.
- Drives breakthrough technical innovations that establish new engineering opportunities and competitive advantages through strategic technology adoption and software architecture transformation. Champions breakthrough approaches to payment system development and drives adoption of new technologies across engineering organization.
- Makes enterprise-level technical decisions that balance complex technical, business, architectural, and competitive factors across multiple product areas. Uses advanced engineering analytical frameworks to evaluate strategic technical options and drive organizational success with measurable engineering impact.
- Mentor/Coach other members on the same team to be more effective
- Lead complex projects that span multiple teams from launch to release in a fast-paced agile environment.
Qualifications:
Required:
- 8+ yrs experience in software development. Experienced in architecture design & development of large-scale platforms & application with simple solutions. Deep knowledge in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, C, C++, AWS, etc.).
- Solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies.
- Designing high performing APIs with less than 50ms Service Level Agreement (SLA) using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and relational database.
- 2+ years of technical leadership experience – proven expertise in building large scale platforms/products using a modern technology stack
- Strong computational skills, fluent in data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
- Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases (My SQL, NoSQL, Mongo DB)
- 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(OWASP).
- 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 and web server optimization techniques
Preferred:
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2.
- Experience with container-based application development using Docker/Kubernetes.
- 2+ years of technology leadership experience in a modern / complex payment environment.
We seek candidates who not only demonstrate curiosity and adaptability in emerging technologies but have also successfully implemented and utilized AI tools to enhance their work, improve processes, or deliver measurable results. Our teams embrace continuous learning and the thoughtful integration of AI to create meaningful impact – for our employees and the future of work.
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