Software Engineer, Backend Developer

About the Role

Make Your Mark:
As a Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by 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 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, and communicate with people at all levels.

Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem‑solving 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, then we want to talk to you.

• Provide technical expertise in the design, development, and delivery of Black Line's products while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, maintain, and improve software applications, driving the delivery of high‑quality value and features to Black Line's customers.
• Collaborate with your team on all aspects of development, including participation in code reviews, developing functional and technical specifications, and strategizing test plans.
• Implement, refine, and follow 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 by proactively supporting good practices and habits, and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• 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.

• BS degree in Computer Science with 2+ years of experience (or Master’s in Computer Science with 1+ year) in object‑oriented programming languages such as C#, Java, C++ or Golang.
• Design, development, and integration of APIs.
• A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and development.
• Experience in service‑oriented architecture.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with multithreading and concurrency.
• Superior analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• 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.

• Stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows.
• Experience with front‑end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript frameworks).
• Experience working with big‑data and/or high‑transaction applications.
• Prior hands‑on experience with tools such as Selenium or Cucumber.
• Experience testing mobile applications.

Salary Range: $–$. Pay Transparency Statement:
Placement within this range depends upon 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 benefit and wellness plans. We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations.

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