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 Full Stack Software Engineer at BlackLine, you will be a crucial player in contributing to delivering high-quality releases to our customers. You will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development but primarily focused on backend, working on features from conception to deployment. We are looking for passionate platform-thinking engineers, who deliver clean architecture, designed with scalability and resilience from the outset.

• BlackLine empowers our team members to be change agents and are always seeking new and innovative ways to solve problems. We are experiencing explosive growth and looking for passionate and talented people to join our team.
• 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, then we want to talk to you.
• You will have the opportunity to modernize a key Platform in Blacklines Invoice to Case, migration and evolving an existing PHP based solution to Microservice based .net platform.
  

You'll Get To:

• Be part of team of technical experts and contribute in the design, development, and delivery of BlackLine’s products, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Collaborate on architect, 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. Develop and document functional and technical requirements. Collaborate with other team members and other teams on all the above.
• Be part of the Community of Practice which Designs and communicate coding standards, architectural plans, solve complex design and architectural problems, delivering robust architectural solutions.
  

What You'll Bring:

• Autonomy – Owns small features end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Complexity & Ambiguity - Able to translate high-level requirements for a story into a sprint action plan, considering cross-team and cross-functional dependencies. You should also seek clarifications to understand unstated needs
• Coding & Debugging - Possess coding skills to address both functional and non-functional needs for a feature. You will review code for scrum team members and help contribute to continuously improve code quality standards.
• Design & Architecture - Design small API surfaces; handle validation/auth/idempotency; basic data migrations. Strengthen observability and on-call readiness; write concise design note
• Busines Acumen & Strategy - Thorough understanding of team's domain and its adjacent areas.
• Influence - A passion for engineering excellence, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Engineering Culture - Actively contributes to fostering a strong, collaborative, and innovative engineering culture, promoting best practices, continuous learning, and a sense of shared ownership and excellence.
  

Required Qualifications

Years of Experience in Related Field:

• 2+ years of experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to C#, .NET, .NET Core.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  

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

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and architecture of complex systems.
• Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, AWS or GCP) and cloud native services.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture and aspect-oriented programming.
• Experience as a technical influencer for highly scalable distributed system designs.
• 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.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience as a technical lead on significant development initiatives.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven experience implementing an experience layer or API ecosystem for complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to implement API monitoring solutions for robust system performance and reliability.
• Expertise in implementing strong observability (logging, metrics, tracing) across distributed microservices architectures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements
  

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.