Staff II Software Engineer

About the role

BlackLine is a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. We aim to modernize the finance and accounting function to enhance 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 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

• BS degree in Computer Science plus 5 years’ experience, or MS degree in Computer Science.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI-powered coding assistants (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development, generate optimized code, and troubleshoot complex technical challenges.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to automate engineering tasks, such as writing unit tests, generating documentation, and improving overall process efficiency.
• Adept at using AI for rapid research and problem-solving, including the exploration of new technologies, analysis of unfamiliar codebases, and evaluation of alternative design patterns.
• 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 through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.

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 career growth and development.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
• Inclusive and supportive work environment.

Pay

USD $225,000.00/Yr. - USD $282,000.00/Yr.

Schedule

Flexible work schedule with the option to work from home up to 3 days per week.