Job Description:
As the Director of Engineering, you will be at the very heart of BlackLine’s engineering processes, dedicated to delivering high-quality software and features to our customers, both quickly and effectively. Your expertise, knowledge, and passion for your domain will imbue the organization around you; you will be a champion for code health, testability, maintainability, and best practices for development and feature delivery. In this position, you will have the ability to build a world-class team who drives robust and high quality feature-sets, well-formed and performant code that is maintainable and reusable, and engineering best practices for all of BlackLine’s solutions to our customers. You will be a technical thought-leader, a champion for rigorous and adaptive technical design, architecture, proactive planning, performance/KPI monitoring, and SDLC concepts within the organization, focusing on cultivating a results and quality-first culture. By leading a team of cross-functional Backend and Frontend Engineers, Scrum Masters, and Managers, you will be able to affect transformative change within the organization by focusing on best of breed development, rigorous testing and automation, cloud transformation, CI/CD, and qualitative delivery of BlackLine solutions. At BlackLine, leadership is a powerful responsibility. We favor servant-leaders—those leaders who will support and enable their teams, guide them to continuous improvement and success, and who can proactively plan and successfully execute paths towards that success.