Software Engineer - Data Integration

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 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.   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.  

  

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:

• 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. 
• Help in project planning by identifying cross-team dependencies and effort estimation.
• 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 learning.
  
  
  

What You'll Bring:

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

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:  

• 3+ years of knowledge of Software development, data integrations, Integration Connector development, usage of low-code/no-code integration platform or ETL platform, RESTful APIs, SOAP and microservices.  
• Technical experience working with integration platform and Integration Connector development
• Proven experience with ERP data integration, API integrations
• Experience with using low-code/no-code Integration Platform or ETL tools
• Experience with OData and REST API
• Experience with SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• Superior analytical, problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities.
• Familiar with internet security issues in software design and code.
• 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.
• 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
  
  
  

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Ruby on Rails development include but is not limited to:  Ruby on Rails MVC Model, Ruby database connectivity
• Angular development includes but is not limited to: Microservice integration CRUD model, Angular screen design, re-use patterns in Angular, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Basic knowledge in Unix or Linux environments
• Experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services, is a plus
• Experience with container management solutions like Mesos, Kubernetes or Nomad, is a plus 
• Experience in Test driven Design and Mocking concept
  
  
  

 

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.