Software Engineer

Overview

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 Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine application and data platform with the focus on ERP data integration components.  

  

You will be driving innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling cloud-based BlackLine connectors, components, services and frameworks, including but not limited to the use of ERP integration, Odata services, REST, SOAP, Event Bus, API Gateway, Job Scheduler, Identity Management, Search, Workflow Orchestration and Data Integration.   

  

If you have a passion for delivering 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:

• Design, develop, 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. Review others’ code.
• Help in project planning by identifying cross-team dependencies and effort estimation.
• Actively participate and contribute to architecture and design of complex problems.
• Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
• 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 (by analyzing monitor functions), 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
  
  

Years of Experience in Related Field: 3+ years of knowledge of Software development, data integrations, usage of low-code/no-code integration platform or ETL platform, RESTful APIs, SOAP and microservices.  

Education: BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.  

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:  

• Expertise in Workday financial technical, administration and integration
• Experience in integrating third party applications with Workday using Workday public API
• Experience in Workday Query Language
• Experience in Workday Reports
• Exposure into Workday Business objects, Datasources and Security modeling for integration
• Experience in Workday SOAP and REST API
• Exposure into Workday Innovation Partner program
• Proven experience with ERP data integration, API and file integrations
• Experienced in using low-code/no-code Integration Platform or ETL tools
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Technical influencer in design and architecture; abstract thinker
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure, scalable code.
• Fluent in the fundamental OO concepts of the Responsibility Driven Design (RDD), proven experience with designing own OO models, reusable components and frameworks.
• Experience with SaaS programming environment and service-oriented architecture.
• Familiar with internet security issues in software design and code.
• Experience with SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• 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.
• FinTech or Financial services domain background
  
  

• Workday financials certified
• Workday financials functional exposure
• Exposure to third party Integration Platforms
• Exposure to programming or scripting language like Ruby on Rails development include but is not limited to: Ruby on Rails MVC Model, Ruby database connections.
• Basic knowledge in Unix or Linux environments
• Angular development includes but is not limited to: Microservice integration CRUD model, Angular screen design, re-use patterns in Angular
• JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services
• Experience in Test driven Design and Mocking concept
  
  

• 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.