Software Engineering Manager - C#/.NET

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 Software Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a talented, cross functional team in enhancing our high performance, cloud-based, SaaS web application. We are 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 and recruit to one or more cross functional Agile Teams, including Front-end and Back-end Developers to deliver valuable functionality to our clients.
• Define and drive an overall unifying vision for the team and its projects, processes, workflows, and related areas, with a solid understanding of company objectives, through motivation, consensus building and leading change.
• Work with peers and leadership to implement and drive adaptations across teams and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas.
• Leverage your technical and domain expertise to partner with Product representatives, stakeholders and your team in defining project deliverables, presenting innovative solutions and, ultimately, to successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of corporate initiatives.
• Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively engage, mentor, and define goals in order to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps.
• Effectively plan, communicate and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management, executives and stakeholders, while conveying and driving actionable items to your team.
• Work closely, partner, and collaborate with our principal architect to provide exceptional solutions that adhere to, or create, standards across teams.
• Manage resources for your team.
• Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your team, while maintaining positive relationships, leveraging the various strengths of personalities involved, and general creative problem solving.
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field
• Overall 10+ years of experience in software development of large-scale web applications.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a technical leadership role building exceptional products & managing high-performance teams.
• Experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services.
• Experience with C# using .NET framework/.NET Core
• Experience in delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development and mentoring.
• Knowledge of full SDLC processes and best practices, Technical Design, Database paradigms, performance monitoring and instrumentation
• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices.
• Solid understanding of modern SaaS web-based application key concepts and features.
• Understanding of QA standards and best practices, TDD concepts.
• Able to conceptualize overall components of technological stacks and pipelines, and convey such information to both technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Keeps abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and relevant areas of interest and applies such knowledge as appropriate.

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.