Senior Software Engineer, SAP ABAP

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:

As a Senior Software Engineer SAP, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine application and data platform with focus on SAP ERP components. You will be driving innovation into our product suite, especially with a focus on the business logic in the SAP module FI and CO as well as financial transactions in the SD and MM domain. Emphasis is on SAP services including troubleshooting, tuning, and preparing and proactive delivering solutions and designs for new solutions with a great sense of software architecture. Fiori UI development is a key element for this role.

If you have a passion for delivering SAP ABAP products that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to you.

You'll Get To:

• Provide technical expertise in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable software.
• Work with product management, your own team and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements.
• Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
• Play an active role in technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance, and extensibility.
• Estimate the project scope and timelines and consistently deliver on those commitments.
• Design, develop, Unit Test, optimize, scale, maintain and improve highly scalable and secure distributed backend services while adhering to requirements, coding and quality standards.
• Develop functional and technical specifications and test plans.
• Participate hands-on in implementation of components of products.
• Mentor and coach colleagues, leading by example for them, and guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
• Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new tools and technologies, and recommend ways to implement them in product development.
• Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support
  
  
  

What You'll Bring:

Education: Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with SAP ABAP Programming.
• Environment, Development tools and Platforms: S/4HANA and ECC6.0
• Focus is on backend development.
• Fluent with ABAP OO programming is expected, preferably with use of Eclipse/ADT.
• Experience with RFC, OData, CDS.
• Experience in product development.
• Hands-on Experience with ABAP Unit Testing.
• Used to think in Service-model driven architecture, rather than imperative software.
• Being able to build the application using Clean Code principles e.g. SOLID and Responsible Driven Design.
• Master in reorganizing or refactoring code.
• Proactive and solution driven.
• Well-considered and thorough in analyzing problems.
• Capable of writing technical documentation, including UML charts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.  
• Experience working in an Agile development environment. 
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.  
  
  
  

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Some basic frontend experience creating Fiori Elements is appreciated.
• Acquainted to ABAP for FI, COPA, Tax management
• Understanding of the SAP Extensibility options (Enhancement framework, Steampunk)
• Experience in Test Driven Design (TDD)
• Fluent with a test tool like Postman
  
  
  

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.