Staff Software Engineer

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.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our core platform engineering team. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will shape platform architecture, simplify complex integration landscapes, and lead modernization across a broad microservice ecosystem. You will partner with engineering leads, product managers, and architects to define technical vision across multiple systems, influencing roadmaps across teams, driving multi-quarter initiatives, raising engineering standards, and improving platform reliability, scalability, security, and developer effectiveness across the organization to help ship systems that handle millions of transactions per day.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java (Java 11+), including concurrency, JVM tuning, and modern frameworks such as Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Deep experience designing and operating microservices in production — service decomposition, API contracts (REST / gRPC), versioning, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Strong command of distributed systems concepts: CAP theorem, eventual consistency, leader election, distributed transactions, and saga patterns.
• Hands-on AWS experience with services including EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Proficiency with Redis — caching patterns, TTL strategies, pub/sub, Lua scripting, and cluster management.
• Solid database expertise across both SQL and NoSQL — schema design, query optimization, connection pooling, and data modeling.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in a production environment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Strong communication skills — able to articulate technical trade-offs to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.