Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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 owing functional testing, including manual testing, writing test automation scripts, establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• 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

• 5+ years of experience in a related field.
• BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent, employer will accept two (2) years of additional related work experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in building web-scale highly available multitenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• 2+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services.
• Fluent 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 in delivering core platform services such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
• Experience in testing code, writing unit tests, functional tests, and automating API and UI test cases.
• Complete ownership of the functional quality of the code being written.
• Technical influence in design and architecture.
• Ability to break down Epics into User Stories.
• Experience with SQL, No-SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving 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 functional testing, test automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture.
• Familiar with internet security issues in software design and code.
• Familiar with ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite or Microsoft).
• FinTech or Financial services domain background.

Nice to Have

• Experience in implementing Scalable applications using Apigee, Okta or similar technologies.
• Experience in Building Microservices.
• Good Knowledge of Internet Security Issues in software design and code.
• Experience in search engines like Elastic Search or similar.
• Experience building applications using Serverless architecture.
• Experience in building scalable Integration Platforms using Nifi or related technologies.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent, employer will accept two (2) years of additional related work experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary Range: USD $145,000.00 - USD $181,000.00
• BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.
• BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please complete this form.