BlackLine
Website:
blackline.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackline
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Software Development
Job details:
Make Your Mark
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 AI Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine application. You will be driving innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling cloud-based applications and services. In addition to being a hands-on engineer, you will also lead and mentor other engineers in the team. If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to you.
You'll Get To
- Provide technical expertise in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing, and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend and AI-powered services
- Design, develop, and deploy intelligent agents and AI-driven features to enhance our product capabilities.
- Utilize Python and its ecosystem of libraries to build, train, and deploy machine learning models and agentic systems.
- Work with product management, architects, and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements.
- Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
- Support technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance, and extensibility.
- Estimate the work scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments.
- Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
- Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new 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 establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
- Contribute to a forward-thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality-first culture within the organization.
- Mentor and coach team members to guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
- Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concern or opportunities and work to either directly affect change or advocate for that change.
- Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.
What You'll Bring
Education: Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.
- Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- 6+ years of professional experience in building Web scale, highly available, multi-tenant SaaS with a focus on backend platforms, frameworks, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Python programming, particularly for AI/ML and backend development.
- 3+ years of active experience in AI/ML projects, with a strong focus on developing and implementing agentic AI systems, AI Agents, large language models (LLMs), and natural language processing (NLP).
- Proven experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- 2+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and a solid understanding of cloud-native services.
- Hands-on Experience with C# programming using .NET framework/.NET Core is a plus.
- Extensive experience with SQL, relational database design, and SQL query optimization.
- A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure, and scalable code.
- Proven experience in working with one or more services such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling, and search.
- Superior analytical, problem-solving, and system-level performance analysis abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
We’re Even More Excited If You Have
- Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, ASW or GCP) and cloud native services.
- Experience designing and scaling high performance systems.
- Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e.g: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search.
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 3 days a week.
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