BlackLine

Senior Software Engineer

BlackLine$156K — $196K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science with 5+ or 3+ years of software development experience, respectively.
  • Proficiency in general purpose programming languages such as C#, .NET, and .NET Core.
  • Experience building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs for 3+ years.
  • Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns with a proven software design track record.
  • Advanced SQL knowledge, including data modeling and transactional flows.
  • Experience in service-oriented architecture and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop product features while adhering to coding standards and timelines.
  • Implement and refine software development techniques to ensure performance and security.
  • Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing best practices and writing clean code.
  • Act as a mentor and coach junior developers, fostering a quality-first culture.
  • Proactively identify and solve issues, advocating for necessary changes.
  • Provide maintenance and release support activities, including off-hours support as needed.
  • Collaborate effectively as a team player with a focus on delivering results.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment combining virtual and in-person interactions.
  • Short-term and long-term incentive programs based on eligibility.
  • Robust benefit and wellness plans.
Full Job Description
Make Your Mark:
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling BlackLine's cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite. In this role, you will collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and 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, then we want to talk to you.

You'll Get To:
  • - Design, develop and deliver product features, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
  • 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.
  • 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 junior team members and guide them to solutions.
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • BS degree in Computer Science plus 5 year's experience, or MS degree in Computer Science plus 3 year's experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, .NET, .NET Core.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  • 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 in service-oriented architecture and in building distributed systems.
  • Advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.
  • 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.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:
  • - Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with open source tools.
  • Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, AWS or GCP) and cloud native services.
  • Experience designing and scaling high performance systems.
  • Experience with container management solutions like Docker or Kubernetes.
  • 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.


Salary Range:
$156,000.00-$196,000.00

Pay Transparency Statement:

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location.

In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations. For roles that include variable incentive components such as an Incentive Compensation Plan (ICP) or On-Target Earnings (OTE), the compensation structure may follow a split model - for example, a 50/50, 70/30, or 60/40 ratio between base salary and variable incentive.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has 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 3 days a week.

About BlackLine

BlackLine, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. The company’s platform is designed to help midsize companies and large enterprises improve the accuracy and efficiency of their financial reporting. BlackLine’s software is used by accounting and finance teams to manage tasks such as journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, and intercompany accounting. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
Learn more about BlackLine
Size
1,812 employees
Market Cap
$3.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$46.9 million
Founded
2001
5 Year Trend
+27.2%
Revenue
$351.7 million
NASDAQ

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