This position will remain open until November 1st, 2024.
About Blue JBlue J is the leading solution in generative AI for tax experts. We’re a B2B SaaS company whose customers are accountants and lawyers, and our AI-tax research software is the best in the market.Since launching our flagship Generative AI product, we have blown past our revenue targets quarter over quarter, and are looking for a Senior Software Developer to help us scale.We are racing ahead with an exciting product development roadmap to continue to delight our customers and to ensure that our users can generate the very best possible tax research answers in the service of their clients in record time.About The Engineering TeamAs a Senior Software Developer, you will be joining a world-class engineering team capable of delivering award-winning products at industry leading levels of speed and quality.We are looking for someone that shares our desire to make an impact and our belief that high quality-standards contribute to our ability to move fast.
As relentless learners, we are constantly looking for ways to hone our craft and share our knowledge. We value software design fundamentals and the deep thinking required to ensure we’ll continue to move fast in the future. And fast we are - we ship many of our services through to production many times per day!A Note on LocationWe are excited to meet with qualified candidates and are grateful for everyone’s interest, however this is a hybrid position that requires applicants to be within driving distance of Toronto for 1-2 in person meetings a quarter. All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.About the RoleWe are looking for a seasoned software developer capable of delivering significant impact directly and indirectly through peer mentorship.
You will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of critical systems.We take on a wide variety of challenges. You could be building user-facing product features, designing new strategies for answering questions, implementing new data pipelines for bringing additional content into our system, designing new search algorithms, or extending our internal data-mesh infrastructure.
What You'll Be Doing
- Challenging yourself to design, plan, and deliver new software products, capabilities, and features
- A substantial amount of coding while leading other developers to help you deliver mission critical projects in an iterative and incremental fashion, regularly unlocking customer value along the way
- Coaching developers in the craft of writing beautiful code covered by well written automated tests while nurturing the long-term health of the systems we work on
- Giving impactful feedback in an empathetic manner to those around you
- Helping elevate our engineering standards, tools, and practices
Your Skills and Experience
- You have 8+ years of demonstrable software development experience with a minimum of 2 years experience working with TypeScript
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- You’ve lead significant initiatives involving multiple developers
- You approach your work with rigour and have an insatiable desire to learn
- Experience with streaming data pipelines and related tooling is a plus
Technologies you can expect to work with
- Node.js / TypeScript / Python
- Apache Kafka / Postgres / Pinecone / ElasticSearch
- OpenAI / LLMs
- Kubernetes / AWS / Docker / DataDog
- React / HTML / CSS
A bit about us
- We’re well-funded and offer competitive base salaries and stock options. You’ll play a crucial role in our growth, and it’s important to us that you share in our long-term success.
- We are taking an exciting, highly anticipated new product into a virtually untapped market at a time when there is a huge amount of buzz around the type of work that we do. You’ll have the opportunity to work at our growing organization, and play a meaningful role in our expansion.
- We've got great leadership and you'll get to work with and learn from team leaders with a proven track record of success in the technology industry.
- We’ve got an amazing team. We’re mission-driven and motivated by success, but we’re friendly, we’re collaborative, and we care about each other. We’ve got all the start-up perks you’d expect, and are intentionally building a culture where you can pickleball if you want, feel safe to be yourself at work, and watch your career grow because your team has invested in you.
- We care about you. You’ll have a healthy work/life balance and colleagues who respect it. We’ve mindfully put together a great benefits package that covers you and your whole family.
The core values that define our culture
- We are customer-focused
- We put the team interest before self-interest
- We are pleasant and playful
- We are open to better ideas
- We deliver on our promises
- We solve the tough problems
We respect the people who put time and effort into applying for a job with us, and will do our very best to respond to candidates within 3 weeks of their application.We believe our strength is built on diversity of thought, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. We value inclusiveness and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.Apply for this job
