Senior Backend Software Developer (Remote) at Blue J

About the Role

We 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 backend software development experience with a minimum of 2 years experience working with typescript
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• You’ve led 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