Software Engineer

About the Role

As a 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 research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, propose scaling solutions, 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in the design, development, and delivery of BlackLine's products, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, maintain and improve software applications, driving the delivery of high-quality value and features to BlackLine's customers.
• Collaborate with your team on all aspects of development including participation in code reviews, developing functional and technical specifications and strategizing test plans.
• Implement, refine, and follow software development techniques to ensure that 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 proactively supporting good practices and habits and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• 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.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science with 2+ years of experience with software development in object-oriented programming languages OR Master's in Computer Science + 1 year experience with software development in object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, C++ or Golang.
• Design, development, and integration of APIs.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and development.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies.
• CS degree or equivalent preferred.
• Stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.
• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.).
• Experience working with big-data and/or high-transaction applications.
• Prior hands-on experience with tools such as Selenium or Cucumber.
• Experience testing mobile applications.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture.

Compensation

Salary Range: $133,000.00 - $167,000.00. 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. 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.

Workplace

Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.