Software Engineer - Agency

About the role

As a Software Engineer at BlackLine, you will deliver high-quality releases to customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling BlackLine's cloud-based backend services. You will research and evaluate new technologies, propose scaling solutions, collaborate with other teams to define and build features, and communicate with people at all levels.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, optimize, scale and maintain software applications while following timelines, coding standards, requirements and quality.
• Take part in code reviews, write functional and technical specifications and plan tests.
• Implement and follow software development techniques so features meet integration, performance, security and maintainability expectations.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies and recommend their adoption.
• Support good practices and advocate for improvements with peers and leadership.
• Perform maintenance, deployment and release support, including occasional off-hours support.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field; equivalent practical experience also considered.
• 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience, able to work independently in team-driven environments.
• Ability to work in Agile methods, with strong communication skills and a proactive approach to problems.
• Office attendance of at least 3 days per week for candidates living within a reasonable commute.

Required skills

• Backend languages.NET (C#), Java or Python, with object-oriented principles, design patterns and clean code.
• RESTful APIs and backend services in distributed or microservices architectures.
• GCP or equivalent cloud (AWS, Azure), including deployment, monitoring and basic infrastructure; Terraform or IaC familiarity.
• Docker and basic Kubernetes; CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) and Git workflows.
• Relational databases such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL; Snowflake, data warehouses and NoSQL are a plus.
• Event-driven architectures and Apache Kafka are a plus; LLM APIs and RAG exposure is a plus.