Staff I Software Engineer(C#)

At BlackLine, we're 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.

Job Description :

As a Staff I Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine application. You will be driving innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling cloud-based applications and services. In addition to being a hands-on engineer, you will also lead and mentor other engineers in the team.

Roles and Responsibilities :

Provide technical expertise 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.

Support technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility.

Estimate the work 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.

Contribute to 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 to 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.

Required :

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field

9+ years of professional experience in building full-stack Web-scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS, including substantial experience with backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices, along with front end experience (React preferred).

3+ years of experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud-native services.

Expertise in JavaScript / TypeScript, C# and .NET.

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, 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.

Experience with reading / writing Stored Procedures.

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

Experience working in an Agile development environment.

Good to have :

Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.

Experience with ERP systems like MS Dynamics-365, Oracle, NetSuite, Intacct is a plus

Experience with open source tools.

Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, ASW or GCP) and cloud native services.

Experience designing and scaling high performance systems.

Experience with container management solutions like Mesos, Kubernetes or Nomad.

Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e.g : Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search.

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