Make Your Mark:

The Senior Manager, Software Development, is responsible for leading a talented, cross functional team in enhancing our high performance, cloud-based, SaaS web application. Were looking for people who not only have a strong technical background and interest, but who want to drive innovation in people management, motivation and growth. You ll be working with and mentoring talented individuals and working closely with other teams and departments to brainstorm, innovate and ultimately deliver the best client integration and user experience. If you dont just see management as the next logical step, but are a passionate, driven leader, you can be a great fit for our team.

Youll Get To:

Manage Software Engineers within cross-functional Agile Teams to deliver valuable and high-quality functionality to our clients

Define and drive an overall unifying vision for teams and their projects, processes, workflows, and related areas through motivation, consensus building, and leading change

Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers

Implement and drive adaptations to teams and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas

Leverage your technical and domain knowledge to partner with Product representatives and your teams in defining project deliverables, presenting cutting-edge solutions, and ultimately, successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of corporate initiatives

Work with Product and technical stakeholders, as well as Program Management, to define project requirements and deliverables, and, ultimately, plan and manage the timely delivery of high-quality projects

Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively engage, mentor, and define goals to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps

Inspire your team, help your team members grow and succeed

Effectively plan, communicate, and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management and stakeholders while conveying and driving actionable items to your teams

Work closely, partner, and collaborate with our Architects to provide exceptional solutions that adhere to, or create, standards across teams.

Manage budget and resources for your team.

Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your teams

Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on work in your respective domain

Manage day-to-day administrative tasks such as time-off requests, sick days, etc.





Other duties as assigned.

What Youll Bring:

What Youll Bring:

Overall experience should 13+ years in related field.

8+ Years of relevant Experience in Related Field

Education: BS, EE or CS degree is a plus.

Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development and mentoring.

Knowledge of Build, Deployment, and Continuous Integration concepts and best practices, including full SDLC.

Robust experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices.

Experience in TDD concepts, methodologies, and best practices (i.e., mocks, spies, unit tests, code coverage, etc.). BDD experience is a plus.

Experience with technical design and hands-on work within a modern OOP-based language (C#, Java, Python, etc.) and related stack.

Experience in up-to-date Database platforms, including such items as data modeling, stored procedures, schema definitions, performance and scaling considerations.

Recent experience working with, troubleshooting and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application.

Proven experience working with large-scale, high-performance systems, with a strong track record of addressing and solving scalability challenges in cloud-based environments.

Understanding of QA standards and best practices, including automation, regression, and smoke testing, white/black-box testing, and related QA processes.

Hands-on exposure to Agentic AI and Generative AI, including designing, building, and deploying multi-agent systems, agent orchestration, planning/decomposition of complex tasks, and tool-augmented or Agentic RAG workflows.

Experience establishing agent governance - defining policies, guardrails, and deterministic boundary controls (e.g., budget limits, disallowed actions) to safely operate autonomous agents in production, along with Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) approval and escalation workflows.

Familiarity with auditability and explainability practices for AI and agentic systems, including immutable audit logging and traceable, explainable decision trajectories to support compliance and risk review.

Understanding of AI risk mitigation practices,



such as defending against prompt injection and rogue planning, and implementing containment and circuit-breaker mechanisms for agents accessing sensitive data.

Ability to define evaluation frameworks and production-readiness metrics (accuracy, cost, latency, coverage) for Agentic AI and GenAI solutions, and to guide engineers on evaluation contracts and component boundaries across agent memory, planning, and tool usage.

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 worlds most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. Its 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 BlackLiners 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 has 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.

Accommodations:

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📌 Senior Manager, Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 BlackLine
📍 Bengaluru