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Get to Know Us:
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine 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 BlackLine 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 BlackLine!
Make Your Mark:
The Senior Manager, Software Development, is responsible for leading a talented, cross functional team in enhancing our high performance, cloud-based, SaaS web application.
We're looking for people who not only have a strong technical background and interest, but who want to drive innovation in people management, motivation and growth. You'll be working with and mentoring talented individuals and working closely with other teams and departments to brainstorm, innovate and ultimately deliver the best client integration and user experience. If you don't just see management as the next logical step, but are a passionate, driven leader, you can be a great fit for our team.
You'll Get To:
- 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.
- Manage budget and resources for your team.
- 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:
- Overall experience should 13+ years in related field.
- 8+ Years of relevant Experience in Related Field
- Education: BS, EE or CS degree is a plus.
- 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 full 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 coverage, etc.) . BDD experience is a plus.
- Experience with technical design and hands-on work within a modern OOP-based language (C#, Java, Python, etc.) and related stack.
- Experience in modern Database platforms, including such items as data modeling, stored procedures, schema definitions, performance and scaling considerations.
- Recent experience working with, troubleshooting and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application.
- Proven experience working with large-scale, high-performance systems, with a strong track record of addressing and solving scalability challenges in cloud-based environments.
- Understanding of QA standards and best practices, including automation, regression, and smoke testing, white/black-box testing, and related QA processes.
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
