Staff I Software Engineer

As a Staff 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 make important decisions regarding the design and architecture of the software and lead and mentor other engineers. If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to you. 

• 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. 

• Lead technical design and architecture discussions and 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. 

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines. 

• 10+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices. 

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

• Extensive experience with SQL, relational database design, SQL query optimization 

• Expert in C# 

• Fluent in MSSQL, SQL, data modeling and transactional flows. 

• Fluent in Javascript, ReactJS framework and/or Angular framework. 

• Specific things they should be knowledge about: 

• REST APIs 

• ASP.NET Core 

• Asynchronous programming 

• Multithreading / concurrency 

• Distributed systems 

• 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 API gateway services such As Apigee, identity management, authentication and authorization. 

• Working knowledge of event driven architecture and experience with a messaging service such as Kafka. 

• 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 with ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework or Hibernate. 

• Experience working in an Agile development environment. 

• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements. 

 

USD $193,000.00/Yr. - USD $242,000.00/Yr.

$1,500