Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
BlackLine is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team. This role is crucial in delivering high-quality releases by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling BlackLine’s cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into their product suite. The engineer will collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing ones, and write elegant code. This position requires attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate has a passion for delivering impactful products, a drive for continuous improvement, and experience in a collaborative agile environment focused on solving customer problems and innovating.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines
- BS degree in Computer Science plus 5 year’s experience, or MS degree in Computer Science plus 3 year’s 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
- Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with open source tools.
- Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, ASW 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and deliver product features, while 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- short-term and long-term incentive programs
- robust offering of benefit and wellness plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
