About the RoleWe're looking for a seasoned software developer who's excited to contribute to impactful projects and grow alongside a high-performing team. In this role, you'll play a key part in designing and implementing important systems, while collaborating closely with peers and learning from other engineers.
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
- Writing high-quality code and collaborating with teammates to deliver impactful projects in an iterative, customer-focused way
- Writing clean, maintainable code with well-structured automated tests, while helping ensure the long-term health and stability of our systems.
- 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 5+ years of demonstrable backend software development experience with a minimum of 2 years experience working with TypeScript for backend development
- Experience working at a software product company
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- You've helped deliver significant initiatives involving multiple developers
- You approach your work with rigour and have an insatiable desire to learn
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
What to Expect in the Interview ProcessA human will review each application and get back to you as soon as possible.
Interview Process- Screening call (30 min)
- Pair Coding Exercise (45 min)
- Past Experience Interview (45 min)
- Technical Discussion (45 min)
- Meet the Engineering Team (30 min)
- Final Interview with CEO (30 min)
How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process- To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Blue J uses AI-enabled tools within our applicant tracking system to help organize applications and highlight profiles that match the key requirements for each role.
- AI does not make hiring decisions.
- Every application is reviewed by a member of our Talent team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans.
- We use these tools to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment and we're committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate
