Senior Software Engineer

Get to Know Us:

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

Make Your Mark:

BlackLine¯SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams and it integrates with numerous ERPs, CRMs, Payment systems, Point of Sale systems and other applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling BlackLine’s cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite.

In this role, you will research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, propose scaling solutions, collaborate with other teams to define, and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, coaching, and mentoring less experienced software engineers and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, creative problem-solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company's success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization.

You'll Get To:

• • Provide technical expertise in the design, development, and delivery of BlackLine’s products, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
  • Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, maintain and improve software applications, driving the delivery of high-quality value and features to BlackLine’s customers. Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans. Review others’ code. Develop and document functional and technical requirements. Collaborate with other team members and other teams on all the above.
  • Design and follow coding standards, architectural plans, solve complex design and architectural problems, create robust architectural solutions.
  • Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
  • Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and habits and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
  • Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concern or opportunity and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change by collaborating with peers and leadership to build consensus and act.
  • Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.
  • Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
  • Passion for engineering excellence, curiosity and demonstrated ability of continuous
    

What You'll Bring:

• Overall experience should 6+ years in related field.
• 6+ Years of relevant Experience in Related Field 
• Education: BS, EE or CS degree is a plus.  
• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development and mentoring.  
• Knowledge of Build, Deployment, and Continuous Integration concepts and best practices, including full SDLC.  
• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices.  
• Experience with technical design and hands-on work within a modern OOP-based language (Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, ORMS, RDBMS) and related stack.  
• Experience in modern Database platforms (Postgres), including such items as data modelling, stored procedures, schema definitions, performance and scaling considerations.  
• Recent experience working with, troubleshooting and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application.  
• Proven experience working with large-scale, high-performance systems, with a strong track record of addressing and solving scalability challenges in cloud-based environments. 
• Understanding of QA standards and best practices, including automation, regression, and smoke testing, white/black-box testing, and related QA processes.
  
  

 

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• • Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
  • Experience in TDD concepts, methodologies, and best practices (i.e., mocks, spies, unit tests, code coverage, etc.).  BDD experience is a plus.  
  • Experience in UI technologies like JavaScript, React, Angular and Typescript
  • Experience with NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with open-source tools.
  • Experience with public cloud architectures (AWS or GCP) and cloud native services.
  • Experience with container management solutions like Mesos, Kubernetes or Nomad.
  • Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e.g.: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search.
  • FinTech or Financial services domain background. 
    

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
  
  

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.