Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer at BlackLine, you will be a crucial player in delivering high-quality releases to our customers. You will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development, 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. You will be critical in the successful conversion of our existing PHP solution to a .NET platform.

Your role will involve designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling BlackLine’s cloud-based backend services, as well as driving innovation into our product suite. Enabling us to create an omni experience layers that abstracts the complexity of the underlying business logic from our ability to create products which are right-sized to our customers needs.

Your role includes researching, testing, benchmarking, and evaluating new technologies, proposing scaling solutions, collaborating with other teams to define and build new features, and optimizing existing ones while writing elegant code.

You'll Get To:

• Provide technical expertise and leadership in the design, development, and delivery of BlackLine’s products, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Collaborate/lead 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. Review others’ code. Develop and document functional and technical requirements. Collaborate with other team members and other teams on all the above.
• Design and communicate 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.
• 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 habits and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Be part of an Inspire a forward-thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality-first culture within the organization. Mentor and coach team members and guide them to solutions on complex design issues.
• 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 working with peers and leadership to build consensus and take action.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.
• Act as a key technical partner and enabler for product-facing teams, providing guidance and support for effective platform adoption and integration.
  

What You'll Bring:

Required Qualifications

Years of Experience in Related Field:

• 4/6+ years of experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to C#, .NET, .NET Core.
• 5+ 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.