Manager 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 Manager, Software Development is responsible for leading a talented, cross functional team in enhancing our high performance, cloud-based, SaaS web application. We're 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 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 a 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 through motivation, consensus building and leading change.
• Implement and drive adaptations to team and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas.
• Leverage your technical and domain knowledge to partner with Product Management, Cloud Ops and your team in defining project deliverables, coming up with innovative solutions and, to successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of product roadmap, resulting in the highest possible value.
• Understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively mentor them in order to capitalize upon their strengths or mitigate gaps.
• Effectively plan, communicate and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management and stakeholders, while conveying and driving actionable items to your team.
• Partner with architects to design / challenge design exceptional scalable, extensible and reliable solutions.
• Manage budget and resources for your team.
• Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your team.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews and hands-on work in your respective domain.
• Cooperate with SAP Product Qualification team; manage the delivery of required content
• Manage day to day administrative tasks such as time off requests, sick days, etc.; performance review and improvement program if needed.
• Other duties as assigned during tenure

What You'll Bring:

• Recent prior experience as a Manager and/or Technical Lead in developing SAP applications, with at least 8 years of experience in developing enterprise software.
• 2+ years of onsite employee supervisory experience and people reporting into.
• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development and mentoring.
• Experience with technical design and hands-on work within SAP ERP and related stacks, as well as OOP in SAP ABAP, including ABAP on HANA using ADT, data representations such as Canonical model, and preferably a modern OOP-based language (C#, Java, Python, etc.)
• Knowledge of Build, Deployment, and Continuous Integration concepts and best practices, including full SAP SDLC.
• Experience in TDD concepts and proven track record in building Enterprise software using OOP principles and best practices (i.e., mocks, spies, A-unit tests, code coverage, etc.)
• Aware of SOLID principles and 12-Factor for cloud developments; BDD experience is a plus
• Experience in modern SAP Platforms, including data modeling techniques, such as Native HANA SQL and CDS, ABAP CDS, DCL access policies, Gateway, GW Service and Odata; HANA public cloud and SAP-BTP is a plus.
• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices. Able to coach teams on this topic.
• Recent experience working with, troubleshooting and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application.
• Understanding of QA standards and best practices, including automation, regression testing, white/black-box testing, and related QA processes.
• BS, EE or CS degree or equivalent.

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 have 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.