Senior Software Engineer; Java

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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-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!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of Black Line application and platform. You will be driving innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling BL application and cloud-based backend platform components, services and frameworks.

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 engineers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to you.

• Design, develop, test, optimize, scale, maintain and improve highly scalable and secure distributed backend services while adhering to requirements, coding and quality standards.
• Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans. Review others code.
• Help in project planning by identifying cross-team dependencies and effort estimation.
• Actively participate and contribute to architecture and design of complex 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.
• Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team owing functional testing, including manual testing, writing test automation scripts, establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off‑hours support.

Years of Experience in Related Field: 5+ years

Education: BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent, employer will accept two (2) years of additional related work experience.

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 5+ Years of Professional Experience in building Web scale highly available multitenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• 5+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services.
• Fluent in one or more object oriented programming languages – Java.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure scalable code.
• Proven experience in delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or Rabbit
  
  MQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
• Experience in testing the code, writing the unit tests, functional tests, and automating the API and UI test cases. Complete ownership of the functional quality…