Staff Software Engineer

BlackLine is a company focused on data and is investing in building the next generation of their data platform. The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and building connectors to various systems while leading and mentoring other engineers to drive innovation and ensure high-quality software delivery.

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 turn 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 technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility
• Estimate the project scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments
• Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the 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 do peer code reviews
• 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

Requirements:

• BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices
• Expert in one or more object-oriented programming languages - C#, Java or C++
• 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 delivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white-box, glass-box, gray-box, and black-box. In practice, experience with extensibility through OO patterns, plugins, external callouts, and 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, No-SQL, 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)