Senior Software Engineer

Company: Blackline
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: July 8, 2025

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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