Staff Software Engineer

About the position

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!

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
• 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 drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility.
• Estimate the work 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.
• Contribute to 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 team members to guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines.
• 10+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• 2+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud-native services.
• Extensive experience with SQL, relational database design, SQL query optimization.
• Expert in C# Fluent in MSSQL, SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• Fluent in Javascript, ReactJS framework and/or Angular framework.
• Specific knowledge in REST APIs, ASP.NET Core, Asynchronous programming, Multithreading / concurrency, Distributed systems.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure, scalable code.
• Proven experience in working with API gateway services such as Apigee, identity management, authentication and authorization.
• Working knowledge of event driven architecture and experience with a messaging service such as Kafka.
• Superior analytical, problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Experience with ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework or Hibernate.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
• Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
• FinTech or Financial services domain background.
• Front End framework experience; React preferred.

Benefits

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future.
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting.
• A place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered.
• BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
• BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer.