Senior Director, 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 Senior Director of Engineering will report to the CTO and will partner directly with the CTO as well as Product line leaders to delivery high value and quality solutions and innovations to our customers both rapidly and effectively. It is a unique opportunity to own the organizational strategy and drive the growth of the organizational capabilities to effectively execute on product strategies and roadmaps, across product lines. You will be responsible for creating a world class development team who drive robust and high-quality featured sets using best in class development practices.
You'll Get To:

• Own organizational and team strategy for growing capability to effectively deliver on product strategies and roadmaps in partnership with the North America and Europe product teams
• Ensure that the strategy aligns with the overall business strategy and use that to set the appropriate short, mid, and long-term priorities for the organization
• Partner closely with the global product teams and identify where organization can provide innovative ways of scaling, enhancing client experience, or providing better business outcomes
• Lead a talented and diverse team of engineers across multiple locations and disciplines, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Be a talent magnet who can recruit, develop, and mentor a world-class technology organization
• Collaborate with product management, engineering, and field teams to understand the market requirements, customer feedback, and competitive landscape
• Set a high bar on engineering excellence and data driven best practices for architecture, software development, including Agile and other lean model development and testing strategies to accelerate time-to-market
• Ensure that the entire organization is consistently delivering highly scalable technology solutions and continuously improving them and the right set of KPI are in place to measure throughput, quality, and value of delivery
• Partner and collaborate with Cloud Operation to ensure that our solutions run effectively in the cloud providing great customer experience and when customer issues are report they are solved rapidly to minimize customer impact
• As one of the core leaders in the technology team, play a critical role as the culture carrier-customer centric, business impactful, self-critical, and proactive across the P&T organization

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering
• Mimimum 5 plus years in a senior leadership role, including proven experience growing a development center
• Proven history of delivering high-quality platform solutions, partnering across multiple time zones that meet or exceed customer expectations
• Expertise in cloud computing, microservices architecture, API design,UI development, and data engineering
• Proficiency in various programming languages, frameworks, tools, and platforms
• Persuasive communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to think strategically, creatively, and analytically
• Passion for learning innovative technologies and solving complex problems

We're Even More Excited If You Have:
Blend of two or more programming languages experience in prior - C#, ASP.NET, Python, Go or Java development experience, preferably in an agile SaaS environment
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.