Senior Software Engineer

Get to Know Us:

Its fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what theyre doing!

At BlackLine, were committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

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 Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine application. You will be driving innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling cloud-based applications and services. In addition to being a hands-on engineer, you will also lead and mentor other engineers in the team.

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, we would love to talk to you.

Youll Get To:

• • Provide deep technical expertise in requirements analysis, system design, effort estimation, development, testing, and delivery of highly scalable, secure, and resilient distributed backend services.
  • Work closely with product managers, architects, and partner engineering teams to translate both explicit and implicit product needs into robust functional and technical specifications.
  • Maintain a strong sense of business value and ROI while making engineering decisions and proposing design or architectural approaches.
  • Lead and influence architecture discussions, driving technical decisions and trade-offs across technology choices, performance, extensibility, reliability, and modernization goals.
  • Estimate work scope accurately and deliver consistently against commitments.
  • Implement, refine, and enforce engineering best practices to ensure that services meet high standards for performance, security, observability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Research, prototype, benchmark, and adopt emerging technologies particularly in Go and Python to evolve the backend platform and support the organizations modernization roadmap.
  • Write clean, idiomatic, testable, and maintainable code primarily in Go and Python , with an emphasis on concurrency, performance optimization, and production-readiness.
  • Contribute to the migration and modernization of existing .NET/C# services into Go/Python-based microservices or cloud-native platforms.
  • Mentor and coach engineers by providing guidance on design patterns, code quality, observability, performance optimization, and system-level thinking.
  • Identify system bottlenecks, technical debt, reliability gaps, or operational inefficiencies, and drive or advocate for continuous improvements.
  • Support release management, deployments, observability improvements, and production operations, including occasional off-hours support as needed.

  What Youll Bring:

Technical / Specialized Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong hands-on experience with Go and Python , including:

• Building concurrent, performant, production-grade Go services using goroutines, channels, and Go s native concurrency model.

• Designing Python-based microservices, automation frameworks, backend workflows, or platform tools with emphasis on robustness and maintainability.

• Experience with Go module management, Python packaging, virtual environments, dependency management, and application structuring.

• Developing RESTful or gRPC APIs a…