Staff II Full-Stack Software Engineer

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.

Join BlackLine as a Staff II Full-Stack Software Engineer and serve as a strategic technical leader within our UI Platform team. You will architect and drive the evolution of our micro-frontend App Shell, bridging the complex gap between front-end orchestration and scalable back-end services. This role is pivotal in defining enterprise-wide patterns for migrating legacy .NET systems to a modern React /Java stack.
You will act as a “hands-on” architect, ensuring our platform is built on solid engineering principles – utilizing the C4 model for architectural clarity and patterns like Strangler Fig for safe, incremental legacy modernization.

• Architect & Design: Lead the design and implementation of scalable micro-front-end architecture and reusable component libraries, leveraging technologies such as Webpack Module Federation.
• Strategic Platform Collaboration: Partner closely with the Staff Full-Stack Engineer to co-architect the micro-frontend App Shell. Jointly establish patterns for module federation, routing, and inter-app communication, ensuring that frontend architectural styles align seamlessly with backend services and platform infrastructure.
• Modernize & Migrate: Lead migration from legacy applications (.NET) to modern React-based solutions with micro-frontend App Shell architecture.
• Define Standards: Establish and enforce front-end coding standards, architectural patterns, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across multiple engineering teams.
• Define Integration Strategies: Define strategies for shared authentication and login workflows across multiple micro-apps, URL routing for multiple apps on the same domain, and inter-app communication.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Proactively drive performance optimization, observability, and security improvements across distributed front-end systems.
• Mentor & Influence: Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and influence technical decisions to foster a culture of quality, innovation, and engineering excellence.

• Experience & Leadership: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with extensive time spent in architectural roles within large-scale SaaS environments.
• Architecture Mastery: Deep experience in both Backend and Frontend architecture. Proven ability to document and visualize complex systems and apply modernization patterns.
• Core Technologies: Expert-level proficiency in Java (for backend services) and JavaScript/TypeScript + React (for micro-frontend orchestration).
• Cloud Native & DevOps: Deep experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native services. Proficiency in designing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure automation (Terraform).
• SDLC Strategy: Expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Ability to optimize development workflows, from architectural design and testing strategies to automated deployment and production monitoring.
• Soft Skills: Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, negotiate technical trade-offs with stakeholders, and drive consensus on architectural decisions.

• Micro-Frontend Expertise: Deep understanding and practical experience with micro-frontends, legacy modernization, and designing scalable, high-performance web applications.

• 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.