Senior Software Engineer - Python / Agentic AI

About the role

BlackLine SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams, integrating with ERPs, CRMs, payment systems and point-of-sale systems. As a Senior AI Engineer, you will design, develop, troubleshoot, maintain, optimize and scale cloud-based applications and services, and also lead and mentor other engineers in the team.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, estimate effort, and deliver highly scalable, secure distributed backend and AI-powered services
• Design, develop and deploy intelligent agents and AI-driven features
• Build, train and deploy machine learning models and agentic systems with Python
• Work with product management and architects to turn needs into functional and technical requirements
• Support technical design and architecture discussions and make trade-offs on technology, performance and extensibility
• Estimate scope and timelines, and deliver on commitments
• Enforce software development techniques and write clean, testable, maintainable and secure code
• Evaluate new tools and technologies and recommend their use
• Mentor team members, conduct peer code reviews and advocate for quality and process improvements
• Handle maintenance, deployment and release support, including occasional off-hours support

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• 6+ years of experience building web-scale, multi-tenant SaaS with a focus on backend platforms, RESTful APIs and microservices
• 3+ years of active experience in AI/ML projects, especially agentic AI systems, LLMs and NLP
• 2+ years with a public cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience in an Agile environment and a passion for automation, unit testing and process improvements

Required skills

• Extensive hands-on Python, including deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
• SQL, relational database design and query optimization
• Services such as API gateways, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration and job scheduling
• C# with .NET/.NET Core is a plus

BlackLine works a mix of virtual and in-person collaboration; candidates living within a reasonable commute to an office work at least 3 days a week in the office.