Staff Software Engineer

Blackhawk is hiring for the role of Staff Software Engineer! Responsibilities of the Candidate: Provide hands-on technical leadership across reliability, modernization, observability, security, and automation initiatives for Core Systems. Build reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows, skills, scripts, prompts, and automation assets to accelerate upgrades, remediation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Design and implement scalable backend solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and modern engineering practices. Lead complex KTLO work, including production issue analysis, root-cause fixes, application upgrades, dependency modernization, and vulnerability remediation. Define and improve observability standards across services using New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. Drive adoption of AI-first engineering practices across the team while maintaining strong review, quality, security, and validation discipline. Partner with application, platform, security, and architecture teams to improve reliability, release safety, PCI readiness, and operational maturity. Mentor engineers and create repeatable playbooks that help teams solve similar problems faster and with better quality. Requirements: Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot Proven experience designing, building, and operating production-grade backend systems Strong working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar LLM-based engineering tools Ability to build reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows, skills, templates, scripts, or automation patterns Ability to drive AI adoption across engineers and teams through enablement, examples, guardrails, and measurable outcomes Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including retries, timeouts, idempotency, resiliency, scalability, and API design Strong experience with production debugging, incident analysis, and root-cause remediation Hands-on experience with observability and telemetry tools such as New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry Experience leading application upgrades, dependency modernization, platform hardening, or vulnerability remediation initiatives Strong cross-team influence, communication, and technical leadership skills