Staff Software Engineer

BlackLine; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term and long-term incentive programs

Robust benefits and wellness plan

Job summary

BlackLine is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the next generation of their data platform. You'll design and implement connectors while leading a team to innovate within their product suite.

The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in developing scalable, cloud-based backend solutions and a strong command of modern programming languages like C#, Java, or C++. The role emphasizes collaboration and driving technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with highly available, multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Experienced in backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Proficient in writing high-concurrency and multi-threaded code.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in development and delivery of backend services.
• Collaborate with teams to translate needs into functional and technical requirements.
• Maintain high software quality standards and ensure clean, testable code.

Skills

Object-oriented programming (C#, Java, C++)

Data structures and algorithms

SQL and NoSQL proficiency

Agile development

Problem-solving ability

Collaborative teamwork

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

ETL tools

Cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Role Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine’s data platform. You will design and build connectors to a variety of ERP, banking, payments, tax, and subledger systems, ensuring extensibility, usability, and scalability of data transfer using the full breadth of available protocols. You will be part of a team that drives innovation in our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling cloud‑based backend platform components, services, and frameworks—including but not limited to Event Bus, API Gateway, Developer Portal, Job Scheduler, Identity Management, Search, Workflow Orchestration, and Data Integration. In addition to being a hands‑on engineer, you will lead and mentor other engineers in the team.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and leadership in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing, and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
• Work with product management, architects, and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and translate them into functional and technical requirements.
• Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions and help drive decisions while making appropriate trade‑offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance, and extensibility.
• Estimate project scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments.
• Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure 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 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 team members, guide them to solutions on complex design issues, and conduct peer code reviews.
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concern or opportunity and work to either directly effect change or advocate for that change.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off‑hours support.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience building web‑scale, highly available, multi‑tenant SaaS focused on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Expertise in one or more object‑oriented programming languages—C#, Java, or C++.
• 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 delivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white‑box, glass‑box, gray‑box, and black‑box, including OO patterns, plugins, external callouts, events, and notifications.
• Experience as a technical lead for design, architecture, and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event‑driven architecture.
• Fluent in SQL, NoSQL, data modeling, and transactional flows.
• Superior analytical, problem‑solving, and system‑level performance analysis 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 automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• Experience with data integration and ETL tools (both productized and open‑source).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
• Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
• Open‑source contributor.
• Proven experience delivering core platform services such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling, and search.
• 3+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud‑native services.
• FinTech or financial services domain background.
• Experience with ERP (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite, or Microsoft) platforms, with a focus on the general ledger.

Compensation

Salary Range: USD $180,000.00/Yr. – USD $226,000.00/Yr.

Pay Transparency Statement: Placement within this range depends on factors including prior relevant experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine offers short‑term and long‑term incentive programs based on eligibility, as well as a robust benefits and wellness plan.

Accommodations

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete the appropriate form.

Equal Opportunity Employment

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, 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.