Sr Engineer

About the role

BlackLine is 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. This role involves designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling BlackLine’s cloud-based backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver product features, 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.

Requirements

• Education: Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines
• Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • BS degree in Computer Science plus 5 years’ experience, or MS degree in Computer Science plus 3 years’ experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, .NET, .NET Core.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
  • 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with open source tools.
• Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, AWS 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.

Benefits

• Short-term and long-term incentive programs.
• Roadmap for professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups.
• Robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

Pay

USD $156,000.00/Yr. - USD $196,000.00/Yr.

Schedule

Flexible schedule with option to work from home.

Company Culture

A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.

Equal Opportunity Employer

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.