BlackLine

Senior Software Engineer - Python/Agentic AI

BlackLine$170K — $213K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science with 3-5 years of software development experience in languages like C#, Java, or Python.
  • 3+ years building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  • Experience with an AI-First development approach.
  • Knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of production deployment and on-call responsibilities.
  • Solid foundation in computer science principles, software design, and complex architectures.
  • Experience in service-oriented architecture and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deliver product features following coding standards and quality.
  • Implement and refine software development techniques to meet performance and security expectations.
  • Maintain high-quality software standards and establish best practices within the team.
  • Act as a mentor and guide junior developers toward solutions.
  • Proactively identify bottlenecks and advocate for necessary changes.
  • Provide critical maintenance and release support including occasional off-hours support.
  • Demonstrate adaptability and strong collaboration skills while focusing on delivering value.

Benefits

  • Robust wellness plans and various benefit offerings.
  • Short-term and long-term incentive programs based on eligibility.
  • Focus on a collaborative agile work environment for continuous improvement.
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 communicate 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#, Java, Python, .NET, .NET Core.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  • Experience with AI-First development approach.
  • Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of supporting production deployments and handling on-call responsibilities.
  • 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, ASW 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:
$170,000.00-$213,000.00

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.

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
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