BlackLine

Staff II Software Engineer

BlackLine$225K — $282K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree in Computer Science plus 5 years of experience, or MS degree in Computer Science.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  • Proficiency in leveraging AI-powered coding assistants to enhance development efficiency.
  • Experience automating engineering tasks and improving process efficiency using AI tools.
  • Solid computer science foundation, including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deliver product features while meeting coding standards and requirements.
  • Implement and enforce software development techniques for optimal performance and security.
  • Maintain high software quality standards by fostering good practices in the team.
  • Inspire and mentor developers, advocating for a quality-first culture.
  • Proactively identify and address issues or opportunities for improvement.
  • Support critical maintenance, deployment, and release activities, with occasional off-hours support.
  • Collaborate effectively as a team player with a focus on results.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for short-term and long-term incentives based on eligibility.
  • Robust benefit and wellness plans available to employees.
Full Job Description
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.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  • Proficiency in leveraging AI-powered coding assistants (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development, generate optimized code, and troubleshoot complex technical challenges.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to automate engineering tasks, such as writing unit tests, generating documentation, and improving overall process efficiency.
  • Adept at using AI for rapid research and problem-solving, including the exploration of new technologies, analysis of unfamiliar codebases, and evaluation of alternative design patterns.
  • 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.


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.

Salary Range:
$225,000.00-$282,000.00

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
NASDAQ

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