Software Developer II

About Blue J

About The Engineering Team

A Note on Location

About the Role

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 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)

• 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

Compensation