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.

Job Description:

• You have strong technical skills and continuously strive to improve, leveraging AI technologies to accelerate development.
• You are passionate about creating world-class software with a customer-first mindset, thinking positively and focusing on solutions over problems.
• You write clean, high-quality code following CI/CD best practices and architectural principles. You debug complex problems, participate in code reviews, and actively engage on product requirements.
• You participate in all phases of product releases and support production systems as a contributing member of an Agile Scrum team.
• You collaborate closely with product managers, architects, designers, QA engineers, and other stakeholders to shape great product requirements and drive feature development from concept to deployment.
• You communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, senior leadership, and across teams including raising observations, advising on risks, and participating in architectural planning sessions.
• You analyze complex requirements, design scalable and fault-tolerant solutions, and make data-driven decisions on performance, trade-offs, and technical improvements.
• You build products that are performant, highly available, and secure, applying best practices in security, resilience, and automated failover.
• You proactively identify technical debt, propose innovative solutions to business problems, and evaluate new technologies for potential adoption.
• You contribute to team process improvements, champion engineering best practices, improve code quality across the team, and mentor junior engineers.
• You influence stakeholders and peers to adopt new concepts, practices, and approaches that benefit the broader engineering organization.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate software development.
• Highly experienced in Core Java 21 or above and in concurrent/parallel programming.
• Hands-on experience in using relational database with good exposure to SQL.
• Strong 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.
• Unix scripting skills.
• Ability to work effectively on multiple tasks in parallel and positively manage work in an environment where that can be changes in scope of work and timeline.

Preferred

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2.
• Experience with container-based application development using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience working in the Payment Industry on credit/debit transactions and knowledge of ISO 8583 is a big plus.

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.

Salary Range for California Residents Only: $121,070.00 to $163,457.00

Salary Range for Illinois Residents Only: $95,550.00 to $128,997.00

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 in the year 2026, 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, and flexible time off for all full-time employees.