BlackLine

Sr Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related fields
  • 5+ years of experience in software development with general purpose programming languages like C#, .NET
  • 3+ years of experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs
  • Strong foundation in computer science principles like data structures and algorithms
  • Experience in service-oriented architecture and distributed systems

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver product features while adhering to timelines and quality standards
  • Implement development techniques to meet performance and security expectations
  • Maintain high software quality by establishing good practices and writing clean code
  • Mentor and coach junior developers while promoting a quality-first culture
  • Proactively identify and advocate for solutions to issues or opportunities
  • Perform maintenance and release support, including occasional off-hours support
  • Collaborate effectively with team members to focus on delivering value

Benefits

  • Comprehensive wellness plans
  • Short-term and long-term incentive programs based on eligibility
  • Collaborative agile working environment
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and development
  • Inclusive culture focused on innovation and engineering excellence
Full Job Description
Make Your Mark:

BlackLine¯SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams and it integrates with numerous ERPs, CRMs, Payment systems, Point of Sale systems and other applications.

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:

Education: Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
    • 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, 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:

USD $156,000.00/Yr. - USD $196,000.00/Yr.

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.

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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