Senior Software Engineer
Company: Blackline
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: July 8, 2025
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Job Description:
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! Make Your Mark: As a Senior Software Engineer, you will
play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine
application and platform. You will be driving innovation into our
product suite by designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting,
maintaining, optimizing and scaling BL application and cloud-based
backend platform components, services and frameworks. If you have a
passion for delivering products 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 engineers are dedicated to
solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to
you. Youll Get To: • Design, develop, test, optimize, scale,
maintain and improve highly scalable and secure distributed backend
services while adhering to requirements, coding and quality
standards. • Develop functional and technical specifications, and
test plans. Review others code. • Help in project planning by
identifying cross-team dependencies and effort estimation. •
Actively participate and contribute to architecture and design of
complex problems. • 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 owing functional testing,
including manual testing, writing test automation scripts,
establishing good practices and writing clean, testable,
maintainable, and secure code. • 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. What Youll
Bring: Years of Experience in Related Field: 5 years Education: BS
degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. * In lieu of
a Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent, employer will
accept two (2) years of additional related work experience.
Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: • 5 Years
of Professional Experience in building Web scale highly available
multitenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks,
RESTful APIs and microservices. • 5 years of experience with a
public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of
cloud-native services. • Fluent in one or more object oriented
programming languages – Java. • 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 delivering one or more
core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management,
authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow
orchestration, job scheduling and search. • Experience in testing
the code, writing the unit tests, functional tests, and automating
the API and UI test cases. Complete ownership of the functional
quality of the code being written. • Technical influencer in design
and architecture. • Ability to breakdown Epics into User Stories. •
Experience with SQL, No-SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• 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. • Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Passion for engineering excellence through functional testing,
test automation, unit testing, and process improvements. •
Experience in service-oriented architecture. • Familiar with
internet security issues in software design and code. • Familiar
with ERP (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite or Microsoft) platforms. • FinTech
or Financial services domain background. We’re Even More Excited If
You Have: • Experience in implementing Scalable applications using
Apigee, Okta or similar technologies. • Experience in Building
Microservices. • Good Knowledge of Internet Security Issues in
software design and code. • Experience in search engines like
Elastic Search or similar. • Experience building applications using
Serverless architecture. • Experience in building scalable
Integration Platforms using Nifi or related technologies. 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 worlds most trusted
name in Finance Automation! • A culture that is kind, open, and
accepting. Its 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
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.
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