Software Developer, Blue J Legal
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Machine learning-powered tax & legal analysis
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Machine learning-powered tax & legal analysis
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring absolute clarity to the law, everywhere and on-demand.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- You have 4+ years of demonstrable software development experience with a minimum of 2 years experience working with TypeScript or Python
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Software Developer II (backend), you will be joining a world-class engineering team capable of delivering award-winning products at industry leading levels of speed and quality
- We’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
- 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
- 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
Application process
- Screening call (30 min)
- Pair Coding Exercise (30 - 60 min)
- Past Experience Interview (45 min)
- Meet the Engineering Team (30 - 60 min)
- Final Interview with CEO (30 min)
Our take
Blue J Legal’s AI powered platform was created by a team of law professors and data scientists with the aim of helping fellow legal professionals gain a better understanding of individual cases, more quickly than if they researched an entire case themselves.
Having initially focused solely on legal cases, Blue J also now applies its predictive AI software to tax law – a tool which has become popular amongst tax attorneys and accountants, not just for its speed but for its junior-training applications.
While there’s been huge growth in the use of AI in the legal industry, its outcomes have not been without flaw. Blue J claims 90% accuracy for its predictive software, however there have been some cases documented across the whole industry where AI was biased against minority demographics for example.
The key thing for Blue J Legal moving forward is the accuracy of its software. If the company can maintain the very highest standards and maintain its AI’s integrity, it could become not just financially successful, but socially impactful.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Education budget for continued learning
- Generous paid time off
- Parental leave
- Social events
- Team-centric environment
- Employee stock options
- Healthy work-life balance
Company HQ
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Leadership
Benjamin Alarie
(Co-Founder & CEO)Osler Chair in Business Law, Full Professor, tenured faculty member, and former Associate Dean (2011-2015) at the law school at the University of Toronto.
Brett Janssen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Senior IT Architect at Odecee and The Marlo Group, former SOA Solution Architect at IBM.
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