Software Engineer (Back-End)

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

Make Your Mark:

BlackLine empowers our team members to be change agents and are always seeking new and innovative ways to solve problems. We are experiencing explosive growth and looking for passionate and talented people to join our team.

• As a Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality solutions to our customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling solutions working on BlackLine's cloud-based backend services. In this role, you will research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, collaborate with other teams to define, and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, coaching, and mentoring less experienced software engineers and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company's success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization.

• If you have a passion for delivering solutions that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where Developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, then we want to talk to you.

You'll Get To:

Provide technical expertise and leadership in the design, development, and delivery of BlackLine's products, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.

• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, maintain and improve software applications, driving the delivery of high-quality value and features to BlackLine's customers. Collaborate with your team on all aspects of development including participation in code reviews, developing functional and technical specifications and strategizing test plans.

• Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that 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 habits and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.

• 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.

What You'll Bring:

Autonomy - Able to understand customer requirements, provide estimates for development efforts, and implement them independently.

• Complexity & Ambiguity - Able to take high level customer requirements and turn them into actionable work.

• Coding & Debugging - Coding skills in one or more programming languages, and Intermediate debugging skills. Regularly uses observability tools to diagnose issues.

• Design & Architecture - Designs solutions at module/class level while considering non-functional aspects, such as, performance, scalability, availability, and security.

• Business Acumen & Strategy - Understands the team's domain well with a basic understanding of adjacent areas. Contributes to ideas and surfacing of tech debt.

• Influence - Openly shares opinions and contributes to discussions and decision making. Participates in code reviews for all team members.

2+ years of experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to C#, .NET, .NET Core.

Education: BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 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.

• Knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.

• Experience in service-oriented architecture is a plus.

• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency.

• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.

• Prior experience working with Agile development methodologies, is preferred.

• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• CS degree or equivalent preferred.

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
  
  • A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's 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 company who believes in providing the best possible service to its clients, and that starts with offering amazing perks to its employees. These perks include 100% coverage for healthcare, vision, and dental, 401(k) matching, ESPP, food, drinks, games, and so much more!
  
  • A culture where BlackLiners' 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, colour, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
  
  Work is primarily sedentary in nature; no special demands required.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.