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Headquartered in Toronto, we're a high-growth B2B SaaS company building industry-leading tax research software that helps accountants find accurate answers to complex tax questions with greater speed and confidence.\nBacked by a $122M USD Series D funding round, we're scaling rapidly across North America and the UK while continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI. By combining advanced technology with deep tax expertise, we empower tax professionals to work more efficiently, make better decisions, and deliver greater value to their clients.\nA Note on Location\nPrimarily remote, but you must live within driving distance of our Toronto office. You’ll join us in person for every quarterly and occasionally for team get-togethers (typically 1-3 visits per quarter).\nTo help you get off to a great start, we bring all new team members together for their first three days of onboarding. If you’re based outside of our local commuting area, Blue J will arrange and cover your travel and accommodation.\nThe Opportunity\nBlue J’s Content Pillar team builds the systems that turn complex, varied source material into accurate, up-to-date content for our AI-powered tax products. Our work spans the entire data pipeline, from initial content ingestion, to near-realtime indexing, to retrieval by RAG algorithms, along with the tools that help our Legal Research team apply their domain expertise effectively.\nWe are looking for a new or aspiring Engineering Manager who combines strong software design fundamentals with a commitment to developing people. You will turn the pillar’s priorities into achievable team plans, coach engineers through challenging projects, and help them deliver reliable improvements in tiny increments. You will work with the pillar Director to clarify priorities and expectations, surface risks and constraints, and adjust plans as the team learns.\nThis is a technically engaged management role. You will build a working understanding of our architecture and codebase, contribute to design discussions and code reviews, and help engineers reason through distributed systems and data processing challenges. Your success will come through a team that delivers high quality results at speed, takes ownership of its systems, and continues to grow its expertise.\nWhat You’ll be Doing\nSetting Direction\nCollaborating with Product and Engineering leaders to define goals and priorities\nIdentifying and monitoring the key measures of success for our AI Content Platform\nUncovering focus areas to advance our systems for ingesting, understanding, curating, indexing, and rendering content for near-real-time use in our AI product\nEnabling High Quality Delivery\nLeading engineers to design and build foundational systems and internal tools, providing guidance through ambiguity, complexity, and difficult tradeoff decisions\nEnsuring projects stay on track and are communicated clearly to stakeholders\nSupporting teams in shipping frequently, safely, and with high confidence, consistent with Blue J’s engineering culture\nStrengthening the Engineering Organization\nCoaching and developing engineers into strong system thinkers and leaders\nImproving engineering practices that support quality, lean iteration, strong testing, and healthy system design\nHiring high performing engineers who raise the bar\nCreating clarity around ownership, mandates, interfaces, and platform boundaries across pods\nWhat You Offer Blue J\n7+ years of hands-on experience, including designing and building heavily used customer facing SaaS products.\n0-2 years directly managing teams of 4+ engineers, ranging in experience from students to Senior+ level. We’re explicitly looking for someone new to this role who is keen to grow\nEvidence that you have helped shape innovative products and technical direction in partnership with Product and Design, bringing an entrepreneurial and creative mindset rather than simply delivering against an established roadmap\nStrong architectural foundation with experience owning complex systems end-to-end, including roadmap creation, system design, implementation, and long-term evolution\nDemonstrated ability to operate as a senior level IC when needed, especially during early context-building\nClear communication skills with the ability to explain complex system designs to technical and non-technical audiences\nAdditional Experience That Would Be Valuable\nExperience working on data pipelines at scale, especially in combination with RAG systems\nExperience with ingestion systems that can handle heterogeneous data, both trusted and untrusted\nExperience with fault-tolerant, resilient, event-driven distributed systems\nExperience managing cross-functional projects, including maintaining alignment and proactively communicating risk\nTechnologies You Can Expect To Work With\nThese may evolve as our platform grows. Technologies currently in use include:\nNode.js, React, TypeScript, Python\nAWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, LaunchDarkly\nGitHub, CircleCI\nPostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, S3\nKafka, NATS, SNS/SQS\nWhat We Offer You\nA meaningful leadership role influencing the platform foundations of a fast growing company\nA culture where quality, lean iteration, and thoughtful system design are core engineering principles\nAn environment where your work directly accelerates innovation in a rapidly evolving market\nA mission-driven culture where your work directly advances clarity, efficiency, and accessibility in tax research.\nCompetitive base salary, stock options, and benefits designed to support you and your family\nFlexibility in how you work: primarily remote, with occasional travel to our Toronto office and conferences as needed.\nA collaborative, ambitious, and supportive team that values innovation, respect, and fun\nThe excitement of a fast-growing, well-funded company with clear momentum, and the resources to back bold initiatives\nThe Core Values that Define Our Culture\nWe are customer-focused\nWe put team over self\nWe are pleasant and playful\nWe are open to better ideas\nWe move fast and fix things\nWhat to Expect in the Interview Process\nWe anticipate a high volume of applicants for this role and are excited to grow our team. A human will review each application and get back to you as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and look forward to connecting with you!\nInterview Process\nChat with Elli, our Talent Acquisition Manager\nLeadership interview with our Director of Engineering, Content Platform\nTechnical deep dive with an Engineering team member\nSystem design exercise with our VP of Engineering, Mario\nMeet our CTO, Brett, and other members of the team\nMeet our CEO, Ben\nWe believe our strength is built on diversity of thought, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. We value inclusiveness and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\nWe strive to create an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know in your application. Our team is dedicated to providing the necessary support and making reasonable adjustments to ensure a smooth process for everyone.\nHow We Use AI in Our Hiring Process\nTo 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.\nAI does not make hiring decisions.\nEvery application is reviewed by a member of our Talent team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans.\nWe 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.\nCompensation\nThe base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $195,000 CAD per year.\nThis is a Level 4 in Blue J’s career level framework. 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