Software Engineer

Company: Blackline
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: January 8, 2026

Job Description:

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. Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers. Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine! Make Your Mark: As a Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling BlackLine’s cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite. In this role, you will research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, propose scaling solutions, collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the companys success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization. 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, then we want to talk to you. Youll Get To: • Provide technical expertise 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. Collaborate with your team on all aspects of development including participation in code reviews, developing functional and technical specifications and strategizing test plans. • Implement, refine, and follow 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 proactively supporting 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 take action. • Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support What Youll Bring: • BS degree in Computer Science with 2 years of experience with software development in object-oriented programming languages OR Master’s in Computer Science 1 year experience with software development in object-oriented programming languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, C++ or Golang. • Design, development, and integration of APIs. • A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and development. • Experience in service-oriented architecture is a plus. • Knowledge of SQL • Experience with multi-threading and concurrency. • 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. • Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements. We’re Even More Excited If You Have: • Stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows • Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus. • Prior working experience in Agile, specifically SCRUM, is preferred. Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining: • A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the worlds most trusted name in Finance Automation! • A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. Its a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives. • A culture where BlackLiners continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

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