Overview
Risk Engineering builds and operates Unified Risk, BHN's central risk and fraud decisioning platform, supporting real-time transaction risk scoring, order risk decisioning, manual reviews, 3DS enforcement and fraud detection across BHN's brand portfolio. This role will own a distributed team of engineers across multiple US locations and reporting to the Sr Director of Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage ~10 engineers across multiple US locations, owning career growth, performance, hiring, and day-to-day team health
- Stay hands-on: contribute code, review architecture decisions, and unblock technical execution on Protego roadmap items
- Partner with Product Owners to shape and prioritize the Risk Engineering roadmap
- Own sprint execution and Jira hygiene including backlog grooming, sprint planning, velocity tracking
- Manage stakeholder relationships across Risk Ops, Compliance, Payments, and Identity teams
- Own AWS cost accountability for your team's services, monitor spend and drive optimization aligned with our sustainability/green infrastructure goals
- Champion AI-assisted engineering practices within the team, using tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to increase velocity and code quality
- Represent the team in cross-functional planning and escalate blockers proactively
Qualifications
- 8+ years hands-on professional experience building commercial products with Java
- 2+ years of management experience leading and mentoring engineers on distributed teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Master's Degree in Computer Science a plus
- Significant experience designing and building REST services and familiarity with microservice architectures
- Proven experience designing and building scalable, high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Comfortable with relational and NoSQL database design and SQL
- Knowledge of security best practices as they relate to web application development, such as OWASP
- Experience working in a cloud environment, preferably AWS, including cost management and optimization
- Experience using Agile methodologies to plan and deliver increments of functionality
- Working knowledge of core ML concepts (precision, recall, F-score, model training/evaluation) to effectively partner with our Data Science team on risk model integration
- Strong grasp of AI/LLM concepts, including agents and agentic workflows, with the ability to evaluate and lead adoption of the right AI solution for engineering problems
- Comfort working with data to identify and analyze fraud patterns, translating findings into engineering and product decisions
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts in non-technical terms
Bonus
- Experience with UI frameworks like Angular and React
- Experience with fraud/risk systems, payments, or high-scale transactional platforms
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.
Benefits
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Blackhawk Network offers benefits including 401k with employer match, medical, dental, vision, 12 paid holidays throughout the year 2026, sick pay accrual according to state law, parental leave, life insurance, disability insurance, accident and illness insurance, health and dependent care flexible spending accounts, wellness benefits, and flexible time off for all full-time employees.
