Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

BlackLine SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams and it integrates with numerous ERPs, CRMs, Payment systems, Point of Sale systems and other applications.

As a Senior Front-End Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling BlackLine’s web application and driving innovation into our product suite. In this role, you will research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, propose scalable solutions, collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code for new UI Components, coaching and mentoring less experienced front end engineers and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem-solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company’s success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization.

Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise in the design, development, and delivery of UI/UX Components for BlackLine’s products, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.

Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, maintain and improve user facing elements for our applications, driving the delivery of high quality value and features to BlackLine’s customers. Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans. Review others’ code. Collaborate with other team members and other teams on all of the above.

Design and communicate coding standards, solve complex UX design problems, create robust solutions.

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 UI 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 enforcing good practices and habits, writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.

Mentor and coach team members and guide them to solutions on complex issues.

Proactively identify issues, 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.

Qualifications

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.

6+ years of experience with Front End software development.

3+ years of hands-on experience in building highly optimized Web Applications.

Expert level knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 and CSS preprocessors.

Expert level knowledge in JavaScript, TypeScript and JavaScript frameworks.

Strong expertise with one or more MVC/MVVM frameworks (Angular, React, Vue etc.) and tools (such as npm, node, gulp, etc.).

Fluency in cross-browser development and debugging.

A solid understanding of computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns related to the Front End development.

Experience with performance optimization approaches (caching, CDN, etc.).

Experience with developing Single Page Applications.

Experience with source controls tools (git, etc.).

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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.

Salary Range

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Employee Referral Bonus Amount

$1,000

Regular