Principal Engineer

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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‑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!

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by defining application architecture, designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling Black Line's cloud‑based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite.

In this role, you will work with management to identify strategic directions for system architecture.

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, coaching, and mentoring less experienced software engineers and communicating with people at all levels.

In this position, every bit of your software design skill will be drawn upon to drive toward and implement best‑of‑breath features in a rapid iterative environment. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company’s 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, you will be a great fit for the team.

• Provide technical expertise and leadership in technology direction, road‑mapping, architecture definition, design, development, and delivery of enterprise‑class solutions while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Architect, design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, perform the capacity planning, deploy, maintain and improve software applications, driving the delivery of high‑quality value and features to Black Line's customers. Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans.
• Develop and document functional and technical requirements.
• Work collaboratively across the company to design, communicate and further assist with adoption of best practices in architecture and implementation.
• Deliver robust architectural solutions for complex design problems.
• Implement, refine, and enforce 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. Identify and create solutions that are likely to contribute to the development of new company concepts while keeping in mind the business strategy, short‑ and long‑term roadmap, and architectural considerations to support them in a highly scalable and easily extensible manner.
• Identify and create solutions that are likely to contribute to the development of new company concepts while keeping in mind the business strategy, short‑ and long‑term roadmap, and architectural considerations to support them in a highly scalable and easily extensible manner.
• Actively participate in research, development, support, management, and other…