VP, Software Engineering

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 VP, Engineering will be a hands-on leader overseeing all aspects of Development initiatives. In this capacity, the VP Engineering will lead the architecture design and will actively manage the technology team to meet its deliverables, quality and performance objectives.

You'll Get To:

• Build rock-solid, dependable solutions using agile methodologies to support the on-demand nature of our core set of products and their mission critical status to our customers.
• Work with the CTO and the executive team to develop and execute long term product strategy and roadmap.
• Implement and improve our SaaS technical product architecture to ensure it is scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Prioritize development goals against resource constraints to deliver against the highest priority items.
• Grow and lead a best-in-class development organization by supporting an open and highly collaborative work environment and leading in a manner that fosters high engagement, performance and commitment among all members of the technology team.
• Manage software engineers and ensure best coding and documentation practices are established and are followed.
• Provide thought leadership in technology direction, best practices in development and coding enterprise-class solutions.
• Ensure that code reviews take place on identified systems/projects
• Staff team according to business demands and established budget
• Monitor and measure team's performance and perform associated annual performance reviews for team.
• Define appropriate feature sets for project iterations.
• Define artifact requirements and necessary artifact templates for project iterations.
• Along with stakeholders, assist with or independently develop story cards for defined features.
• Lead time estimation sessions for defined feature sets.
• Gather and record all metrics including actual time spent on iteration features.
• Work on special projects as identified by CTO related to the maturation of the BlackLine
• Systems software development discipline.
• Work closely with other managers to gather business requirements and to follow disciplined change management procedures
  
  
  

What You'll Bring:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, and six to eight years related experience.
• Three or more years as a technical lead with deep technical domain expertise in two or more of the following: Web Application Development, .Net, Web Services, Performance Tuning on heavily used web applications.
• Communication with customers on project requirements.
• Ability to lead, challenge, attract, and build a highly skilled team.
• Defining and documenting project scope.
• Working with CTO to allocate and manage budgets and expenses.
• Defining schedules and verifying progress according to schedule.
• Allocating work to employees and contractors in the assigned teams.
• Performance review and mentoring of application development employees.
• Technical supervision of projects and company-wide initiatives.
• Communication of issues, progress, status to CTO.
• Research of relevant technologies and communication of recommendations.
• Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive, pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (road-maps) to satisfy business strategy.
• Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system inter-dependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs.
  
  
  

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Net, C#, SQL Server, UML, OO Design and Implementation, XML, JSON, SOAP, Data Analysis, Statistics, Design of Experiments, Agile.
  
  
  

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.

Salary Range:

USD $225,000.00 - USD $300,000.00

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, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.