About Blue J
Blue J’s ambition is to be the world leader in generative AI for tax experts. Our AI tax research software is widely regarded as the best in the market. 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.
Our company is at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to tax research. We're looking for a skilled Software Developer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about shaping the future of AI-assisted tax research.
Your work will directly contribute to enhancing our product and AI capabilities, ensuring our technology remains at the industry's leading edge.
About The Engineering Team
As a 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 Location
We 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 commuting distance of Toronto for 1-2 in person meetings a quarter. All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
What You'll be Doing
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: Job Responsibilities:
You’ll challenge yourself to design, plan, and deliver new software products, capabilities, and featuresYou’ll plan and execute on your work in an iterative and incremental fashion, regularly unlocking customer value along the wayYou’ll take responsibility for producing high-quality software that makes an impact on people’s livesYou’ll write clean code covered by well written automated tests while nurturing the long-term health of the systems we work onYou’ll mentor other engineers through detailed code reviews, design discussions, and/or pair programmingYou’ll catch small issues early to prevent them from becoming big issues laterYou’ll help elevate our engineering standards, tools, and practicesYour Skills and Experience
You have 3+ years of demonstrable software development experience with a minimum of 2 years experience working with TypeScript Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience Strong written and verbal communication skillsSolid understanding and experience with the technical and non-technical practices that make agile software development successfulExperience with streaming data pipelines and related tooling is a plusHaving examples to show us of prior work will be highly regardedTechnologies you can expect to work with
Node.js / TypeScript / Python Apache Kafka / Postgres / Pinecone / ElasticSearchOpenAI / Azure AIKubernetes / AWS / Docker / DataDogReact / HTML / CSSA 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-focusedWe put the team interest before self-interestWe are pleasant and playfulWe are open to better ideasWe deliver on our promisesWe solve the tough problemsWe 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.