Manager II, Engineering

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.

Hybrid flexibility: At Blackhawk Network, you’ll enjoy the best of both worlds—focused remote work plus in-person collaboration at our Coppell, TX office.

This rhythm gives you the tools, connection, and autonomy you need to make a real impact.

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.

• 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
• 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