Staff I Software Engineer

Get to Know Us: It’s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they’re doing!

At BlackLine, we’re 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: As a Staff Software Engineer - C# + Python, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine applications and data platform. BlackLine thrives on data, and we are investing heavily in being able to sync data from and to BlackLine and various ERP, Bank, Payments, Tax and Subledger systems.

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.

You’ll Get To:

• You will be part of a team which drives innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling full-stack, cloud-based solutions, running on some combination of Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services.
• You will be responsible for designing and building components that enhance the configurability, extensibility, and interoperability of these various systems and the customer systems to which they connect, while striving for usability and scalability of data transfer using a full breadth of design techniques and data transfer protocols available within each system.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
• Mentor and coach team members, guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
• 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.
• 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: Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field
• 10+ years of professional experience in building full-stack Web-scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS, including substantial experience with backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices, along with front end experience (React preferred).
• 3+…