VP, 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:
We are looking for a customer-focused, results-driven Engineering leader to lead and scale our engineering team and oversee the development of our new site in Krakow, Poland. You will build and lead a world-class engineering team that will drive innovation, deliver high-quality products that our customers love, and establish a culture of operational excellence. 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, we want you!
You'll Get To:

• Build a world class engineering team by hiring key talent and creating a culture of ownership that thrives on innovation.
• Work with leadership to align the vision and mission for the team in Poland with strategic company objectives.
• Develop the roadmap with strategic partnership with Product Management, Customer Success, Support, and GTM teams.
• Be a global leader and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Understand how to make tradeoffs in delivering complex SaaS software.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence-being obsessed with the customer experience.
• Be disciplined in leveraging process to drive efficiency, accountability, and quality.
• Push the boundaries to drive and encourage innovation.
• Build scalable and resilient solutions using agile methodologies to support the on-demand nature of our core set of products and their mission critical status to our customers.
• Implement and improve our SaaS technical product architecture to ensure it is scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Prioritize development goals against resource constraints to deliver against the highest priority items.
• Grow and lead a best-in-class development organization by supporting an open and highly collaborative work environment and leading in a manner that fosters high engagement, performance and commitment among all members of the technology team.
• Manage software engineers and ensure best coding and documentation practices are established and are followed.
• Provide thought leadership in technology direction, best practices in development and coding enterprise-class solutions.
• Drive SDLC best practices to ensure consistency, efficiency, and quality
• Staff team according to business demands and established budget
• Monitor and measure team's performance and perform associated annual performance reviews for team.
• Lead time estimation sessions for defined feature sets.
• Gather and record all metrics including actual time spent on iteration features.
• Work on special projects as identified related to the maturation of the BlackLine

Systems software development discipline.

• Work closely with other managers to gather business requirements and to follow disciplined change management procedures.
• Establish and manage the operations of the new Krakow location.
• Drive the site's growth and long-term vision and collaborate closely with HR, facilities, and other departments to ensure operational success.

What You'll Bring:

• Communication with customers on project requirements.
• Ability to lead, challenge, attract, and build a highly skilled team
• Defining and documenting project scope
• Working with CTO to allocate and manage budgets and expenses.
• Defining schedules and verifying progress according to schedule.
• Allocating work to employees and contractors in the assigned teams.
• Performance review and mentoring of application development employees.
• Technical supervision of projects and company-wide initiatives.
• Communication of issues, progress, status to CTO.
• Research of relevant technologies and communication of recommendations.
• Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive, pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (road-maps) to satisfy business strategy.
• Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system inter-dependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs.

Education/Experience

• Three or more years as a technical lead with deep technical domain expertise in two or more of the following: Web Application Development, .Net, Web Services, Performance Tuning on heavily used web applications
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, and six to eight years related experience

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• Managing global teams of ~60-100
• Ability to lead, challenge, attract, and build a highly skilled team
• Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive, pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (roadmaps) to satisfy business strategy
• Ability to make tradeoffs when necessary, with data-driven decision making
• Ability to communicate clearly with customers and partners
• Defining and documenting project scope
• Allocating and managing budgets and expenses
• Defining schedules and verifying progress according to schedule
• Allocating work to employees and contractors in the assigned teams
• Performance review and mentoring of application development employees
• Technical supervision of projects and company-wide initiatives
• Communication of issues, progress, status to Engineering leadership
• Research of relevant technologies and communication of recommendations
• Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system inter-dependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs
• Three or more years as a technical lead with deep technical domain expertise in two or more of the following: Web Application Development, .Net, Web Services, Performance Tuning on heavily used web applications
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, and six to eight years related experience

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 2 days a week.