Staff I 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:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine applications and data platform. BlackLine thrives on data, and we are investing heavily in being able to sync data from and to BlackLine and various ERP, Bank, Payments, Tax and Subledger systems.

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, 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:

• 10+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on Experience with C# programming using .NET framework/.NET Core
• 3+ years of experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud-native services.
• 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.
• Proven experience delivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white-box, glass-box, gray-box, and black-box.
• In practice, experience with extensibility through OO patterns, plugins, external callouts, events and notifications.
• Experience as a technical lead for design, architecture and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event driven architecture.
• Fluent in SQL, No-SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• Superior analytical, problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with reading/writing Stored Procedures. 
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
  
  
  

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
• Experience with ERP systems like MS Dynamics-365, Oracle, NetSuite, Intacct is a plus
• Experience with open source tools.
• Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, ASW or GCP) and cloud native services.
• Experience designing and scaling high performance systems.
• 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.
• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with data integration and middleware software tools is a plus
  
  
  

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.