Staff I Software Engineer

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

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

Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans

Review others code

Develop and document functional and technical requirements

Collaborate with other team members and other teams on all the above

Design and communicate coding standards, architectural plans, solve complex design and architectural problems, create robust architectural solutions

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 act

Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support

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

Passion for engineering excellence, curiosity and demonstrated ability of continuous learning

8+yrs exp in C#, Dot Net Core BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Expert in one or more object-oriented programming languages - C# (Must),

NET Core, Python or Java

Fluent in SQL, data modeling, stored procedures, and transactional flows

Fundamental understanding of database performance considerations

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server highly preferred

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 working with one or more services such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search

Experience contributing to the design, architecture and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event driven architecture

Experience as a technical lead on significant development initiatives

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