Senior 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
Open for applications
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More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring absolute clarity to the law, everywhere and on-demand.
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of demonstrable software development experience with a minimum of 2 years experience working with TypeScript
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- You’ve lead significant initiatives involving multiple developers
- You approach your work with rigour and have an insatiable desire to learn
- Experience with streaming data pipelines and related tooling is a plus
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- This position will remain open until November 1st, 2024
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
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$9m
SERIES B
Nov 2018
$7.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $16.5m
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 values
- We are customer-focused
- We put the team’s interest before self-interest
- We are pleasant and playful
- We are open to better ideas
- We deliver on our promises
- We solve tough problems
Company HQ
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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.
Anthony Niblett
(Co-founder)Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. Former Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Albert Yoon
(Co-founder)Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, Michael J. Trebilcock Chair in Law and Economics.
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