Job Description

Overview:

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.
Responsibilities:
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Technical Leadership & Architecture

Lead the

design and evolution of large-scale, distributed systems

handling high throughput, low latency, and high availability. Own

system architecture decisions

for microservices, APIs, data stores, and inter-service communication. Drive

scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance

across services. Identify architectural risks and proactively propose improvements or simplifications.
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Hands-On Engineering

Write

high-quality, production-grade Java code

(Java 11/17+), setting the bar for engineering excellence. Design and implement

cloud-native microservices

using modern frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, etc.). Build systems that support

horizontal scaling, zero-downtime deployments, and graceful degradation

. Lead complex refactors and migrations (monolith microservices, legacy cloud-native).
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Cloud & Platform Engineering (AWS)

Design and operate services on

AWS

, leveraging: + Compute: ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda (as appropriate)
+ Data: RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, ElastiCache
+ Messaging/Streaming: SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis
Implement

infrastructure-as-code

(Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK). Partner with DevOps/SRE to improve

observability, reliability, and cost efficiency

.
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System Design & Engineering Excellence

Define and enforce best practices for: + API design (REST/gRPC, versioning, backward compatibility)
+ Data modeling and consistency (SQL/NoSQL, eventual consistency)
+ Security (authentication, authorization, secrets management)
Review designs and code across teams; provide

clear, actionable feedback

. Lead technical deep dives, design reviews, and post-mortems.
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Mentorship & Influence

Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on system design, distributed systems, and Java best practices. Act as a

trusted technical advisor

to engineering leadership and product partners. Drive alignment on architectural standards and long-term technical vision.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

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6+ years

of professional software engineering experience, with

significant time building backend systems in Java

. Deep expertise in

Java (11+), concurrency, memory management, and JVM performance tuning

. Proven experience designing and building

distributed, microservice-based systems at scale

. Strong hands-on experience with

AWS

and cloud-native architectures. Excellent

system design skills

: data modeling, service boundaries, scaling strategies, failure handling. Experience with

high-availability, low-latency, high-throughput systems

. Strong understanding of

networking, APIs, and asynchronous communication

. Experience building

multi-region, globally distributed systems

. Ability to influence without authority and collaborate across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications

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Experience in

payments, fintech, e-commerce, or other high-reliability domains

. Experience with

event-driven architectures

and streaming platforms (Kafka). Familiarity with

Kubernetes

and service mesh technologies. Strong background in

security, compliance, and data protection

. * Contributions to

architecture standards, platform teams, or shared services

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