Senior Manager, Platform

BlackLine•Pleasanton, CA

17h•$225,000 - $282,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

8+ Years of Experience in Related Field
BS, EE or CS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Recent prior experience as a Manager and/or Technical Lead in software development of large-scale web applications, with at least 8 years of experience in your respective domain
3+ years of onsite employee supervisory experience
Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development, and mentoring
Knowledge of Build, Deployment, and Continuous Integration concepts and best practices, including entire SDLC
Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices
Experience in TDD concepts, methodologies, and best practices (i.e., mocks, spies, unit tests, code coverage, etc.)
5+ years of experience in software development using one or more general purpose programming languages (C#, Java, C++, etc.) and related stack(s)
Designing and developing highly available ETL Pipeline to ingest, normalize and data transfer
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 as a technical influencer for highly scalable distributed system designs
Experience in modern database platforms, including data modeling, stored procedures, schema definitions, performance, and scaling considerations
Recent experience working with, troubleshooting, and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application
Understanding of QA standards and best practices, including automation, regression, and smoke testing, white/black-box testing, and related QA processes
Working knowledge of OWASP secure development practices and 12-Factor App principles

Nice To Haves

BDD experience is a plus
Experience working with Google Cloud Platform preferred
Experience with Big data frameworks like - NiFi, Spark, Hadoop, Hive.

Responsibilities

Manage Software Engineers within cross-functional Agile Teams to deliver valuable and high-quality functionality to our clients
Define and drive an overall unifying vision for teams and their projects, processes, workflows, and related areas through motivation, consensus building, and leading change
Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers
Implement and drive adaptations to teams and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas
Leverage your technical and domain knowledge to partner with Product representatives and your teams in defining project deliverables, presenting innovative solutions, and ultimately, successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of corporate initiatives
Work with Product and technical stakeholders, as well as Program Management, to define project requirements and deliverables, and, ultimately, plan and manage the timely delivery of high-quality projects
Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively engage, mentor, and define goals to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps
Inspire your team, help your team members grow and succeed
Effectively plan, communicate, and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management and stakeholders while conveying and driving actionable items to your teams
Work closely, partner, and collaborate with our Architects to provide exceptional solutions that adhere to, or create, standards across teams
Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your teams
Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on work in your respective domain
Manage day-to-day administrative tasks such as time-off requests, sick days, etc.
Other duties as assigned.