Staff Engineer (Frontend)

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:
Join BlackLine as a Staff Front-End Software Engineer and lead the modernization of our enterprise web platform. You'll architect and implement micro-frontend App Shell architecture, migrate features from legacy .NET systems, and set front-end standards that scale across teams. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building high-performance, secure, and accessible web applications using modern technologies. We are looking for an experienced engineer to provide technical leadership, mentor other engineers, and influence technical decisions across the organization.
You'll Get To:

• 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.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience & Leadership: 8+ years of front-end development experience with a proven track record of technical leadership.
• Core Technologies: Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and
• Architecture: Deep understanding and practical experience with micro-frontends, legacy modernization, and designing scalable, high-performance web applications.
• SDLC Strategy: Expertise in aligning stakeholder objectives with architectural design and optimizing delivery workflows for efficiency.
• Build & Tooling: Advanced proficiency with modern build tools like Webpack, Vite, and Rollup.
• Testing: Strong skills in creating comprehensive testing strategies, including unit and end-to-end testing with Jest, Testing Library, Vitest, and
• UI & Design Systems: A deep understanding of design systems, including Storybook, design tokens, component-driven development, and CSS preprocessors (SASS/LESS) and responsive design for flexible layouts.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
• Backend & Microservices: Experience with backend technologies and microservices architecture is a plus.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:
Accessibility & Global Reach: Strong knowledge of web accessibility (WCAG standards) and internationalization (i18n).
Offline & Resilience: Ability to implement offline application support and graceful degradation strategies.
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.