Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Overview

Get to Know Us

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At Black Line, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, Black Line 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 Black Line 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 Black Line!

What You’ll Do

As Senior Manager of Software Development, you will lead, manage, and inspire teams of talented Software Engineers working to enhance our high performance, cloud-based, SaaS web application. You will be at the core of what makes us successful: the people and teams who write our software and build new and key features for our clients. Being at the center of our application allows you to affect change, to own and drive improvements every day, and to imbue those around you with a passion and dedication to excellence.

• Manage Software Engineers within cross-functional Agile Teams to deliver valuable and high-quality functionality to our clients

• Define and drive an overall unifying vision for teams and their projects, processes, workflows, and related areas through motivation, consensus building, and leading change

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers

• Implement and drive adaptations to teams and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas

• Leverage your technical and domain knowledge to partner with Product representatives and your teams in defining project deliverables, presenting innovative solutions, and ultimately, successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of corporate initiatives

• Work with Product and technical stakeholders, as well as Program Management, to define project requirements and deliverables, and, ultimately, plan and manage the timely delivery of high-quality projects

• Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively engage, mentor, and define goals to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps

• Inspire your team, help your team members grow and succeed

• Effectively plan, communicate, and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management and stakeholders while conveying and driving actionable items to your teams

• Work closely, partner, and collaborate with our Architects to provide exceptional solutions that adhere to, or create, standards across teams

• Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your teams

• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on work in your respective domain

• Manage day-to-day administrative tasks such as time-off requests, sick days, etc.

• Other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ Years of experience in related field

• BS, EE or CS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• Recent prior experience as a Manager and/or Technical Lead in software development of large-scale web applications, with at least 8 years of experience in your respective domain

• 3+ years of onsite employee supervisory experience

• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development, and mentoring

• Knowledge of Build, Deployment, and Continuous Integration concepts and best practices, including entire SDLC

• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices

• Experience in TDD concepts, methodologies, and best practices (i.e., mocks, spies, unit tests, code…