Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

As a Software Engineer at BlackLine in Mexico City, you will help 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 meeting timelines, coding standards, requirements and quality.
• Take part in code reviews, write functional and technical specifications and plan tests.
• Follow software development techniques so features meet integration, performance, security and maintainability expectations.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies and recommend how to use them.
• Keep high standards of quality and support good practices, and identify issues and advocate for change.
• Support maintenance, deployment and release activities, 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, contribute to ceremonies and collaborate with product, QA and operations teams.
• Strong communication skills and comfort learning new frameworks and tools.
• 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), Terraform, Docker and basic Kubernetes.
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), Git, SQL Server or PostgreSQL, and Snowflake or NoSQL (a plus).
• Event-driven architectures, Apache Kafka (a plus); LLM APIs and RAG (a plus).
• React (a plus), GCP or AWS certification (a plus), open-source contribution (a plus).