Senior Software Engineer - Python​/Agentic AI

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver product features, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Implement, refine and enforce software development techniques to ensure that delivered features meet software integration, performance, security and maintainability expectations.
• Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and habits and writing clean, testable, maintainable and secure code.
• Inspire a forward‑thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality‑first culture within the organization. Mentor and coach junior team members and guide them to solutions.
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps or other areas of concern or opportunity and work to either directly affect change or advocate for that change by working with peers and leadership to build consensus and take action.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment and release‑support activities, including occasional off‑hours support.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Passion for engineering excellence, curiosity and demonstrated ability of continuous learning.

• BS degree in Computer Science plus 5 years of experience, or MS degree in Computer Science plus 3 years of experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, Python, .NET, .NET Core.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with AI‑First development approach.
• Experience with front‑end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript frameworks, etc.) is a plus.
• Strong understanding of supporting production deployments and handling on‑call responsibilities.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and architecture of complex systems.
• Experience in service‑oriented architecture and in building distributed systems.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models and transactional flows.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing and process improvements.

• Experience with PostgreSQL and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with open source tools.
• Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, AWS or GCP) and cloud native services.
• Experience designing and scaling high‑performance systems.
• Experience with container management solutions like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e.g. Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search.
• Fin Tech or financial services domain background.

USD $ to USD $ per year.

Placement within this range depends on several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set and geographic location. In addition to base pay, Black Line also offers short‑term and long‑term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefits and wellness plans.

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