Sr Engineer

BlackLine•Pleasanton, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackLine is seeking a Sr. 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. The engineer will also drive innovation into the product suite, collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features, and write elegant code. The position requires attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving skills. BlackLine is a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process, aiming to modernize the finance and accounting function for greater operational effectiveness and agility.

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.