BlackLine

Staff Software Engineer

BlackLine$180K — $226K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Seattle, WA
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years building Web scale multi-tenant SaaS focusing on backend platforms, frameworks, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
  • Expert in C#, Java, or C++.
  • Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and design patterns with experience in high concurrency and secure, scalable code.
  • Experience as a technical lead for scalable distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
  • Fluent in SQL, No-SQL, data modeling, and transactional flows.
  • Excellent communication skills and adaptable team player.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership in requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and delivery of scalable backend services.
  • Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to transform needs into requirements.
  • Ensure planning and design adhere to business value and ROI considerations.
  • Lead discussions on technical design and architecture, making informed trade-offs.
  • Estimate project scope and timelines while meeting commitments.
  • Enforce software development best practices for integration, performance, and maintainability.
  • Identify issues and advocate for changes to improve systems and processes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive wellness plans and benefits packages.
  • Incentive programs for short-term and long-term performance.
  • Commitment to pay transparency and clear compensation expectations.
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
  • Supportive and collaborative team culture focused on engineering excellence.
Full Job Description
You'll Get To:
  • - Provide technical expertise and leadership in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
  • Work with product management, architects and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements.
  • Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
  • Lead technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility.
  • Estimate the project scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments.
  • Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the 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 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 team members, guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
  • Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change.
  • Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support. -


What You'll Bring:
  • - BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
  • Expert in one or more object-oriented programming languages
  • C#, Java or C++.
  • A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure, scalable code.
  • Proven experience deilivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white-box, glass-box, gray-box, and black-box. In practice, experience with extensibiity through OO patters, plugins, external callouts, and events and notifications.
  • Experience as a technical lead for design, architecture and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event driven architecture.
  • Fluent in SQL, No-SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
  • Superior analytical, problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment.
  • Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
  • Experience with data integration and ETL tools (both productized and open source) -

We're Even More Excited If You Have:
  • - Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
  • Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
  • Open source contributor.
  • Proven experience in delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
  • 3+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud-native services.
  • FinTech or Financial services domain background.
  • Experience with ERP (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite or Microsoft) platforms, with a focus on the general ledger.


Salary Range:
$180,000.00-$226,000.00

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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