Senior Software Engineer - Java

Its fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what theyre doing!

At BlackLine, were committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

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!

BlackLine SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams and it integrates with numerous ERPs, CRMs, Payment systems, Point of Sale systems and other applications.

As a Sr. Software Engineer in Test, you will play a crucial role in the success of our company by contributing to, as well as driving, high-quality releases and value-delivery to our customers. In this role, you will be automating tests for web-based, mobile applications and RESTful APIs to support our high-transaction and big-data SaaS applications. Your attention to detail, tenacity, creative problem-solving and forward thinking will directly impact the companys success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization. By following and evangelizing quality standards, as well as overall SDLC processes as they relate to quality, you will be able to affect meaningful change in the organization and help drive our culture to a quality and customer-first mentality.

• 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 by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Proactively identify issues (by analyzing monitor functions), 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

Education: Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related disciplines

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 7 + years of Software Development experience using Java
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience with Spring/Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Experience with cloud (Azure, AWW or GCP) is preferred
• Experience with SaaS programming environment and service-oriented architecture.
• Fluent in the fundamental OO concepts of the Responsibility Driven Design (RDD), proven experience with designing own OO models, reusable components and frameworks.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.

• Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
• Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e.g: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search.
• Experience designing and scaling high performance systems.
• Experience with container management solutions like Mesos, Kubernetes or Nomad.
• Experience with ERP systems like MS Dynamics-365, Oracle, NetSuite, Intacct is a plus
• Experience with open source tools.
• FinTech or Financial services domain background.
• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with data integration and middleware software tools is a plus

• 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.

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.

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.

Education: Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related disciplines

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 7 + years of Software Development experience using Java
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience with Spring/Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Experience with cloud (Azure, AWW or GCP) is preferred
• Experience with SaaS programming environment and service-oriented architecture.
• Fluent in the fundamental OO concepts of the Responsibility Driven Design (RDD), proven experience with designing own OO models, reusable components and frameworks.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.