About Blue J

Blue J is the leading generative AI solution for tax professionals and one of Canada's fastest-growing AI companies. 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.

Backed 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.

A Note on Location

Primarily 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).

To 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.

The Opportunity

Blue J’s Content Pillar team builds the systems that turn complex, diverse 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.

We 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.

This 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.

What You’ll Be Doing

Setting Direction

- Collaborating with Product and Engineering leaders to define goals and priorities
- Identifying and monitoring the key measures of success for our AI Content Platform
- Uncovering focus areas to advance our systems for ingesting, understanding, curating, indexing, and rendering content for near-real-time use in our AI product

Enabling High Quality Delivery

- Leading engineers to design and build foundational systems and internal tools, providing guidance through ambiguity, complexity, and difficult tradeoff decisions
- Ensuring projects stay on track and are communicated clearly to stakeholders




- Supporting teams in shipping frequently, safely, and with high confidence, consistent with Blue J’s engineering culture

Strengthening the Engineering Organization

- Coaching and developing engineers into strong system thinkers and leaders
- Improving engineering practices that support quality, lean iteration, strong testing, and healthy system design
- Hiring high performing engineers who raise the bar
- Creating clarity around ownership, mandates, interfaces, and platform boundaries across pods

What You Offer Blue J

- 7+ years of hands-on experience, including designing and building heavily used customer facing SaaS products.
- 0-2 years directly managing teams of 4+ engineers, ranging in experience from students to Senior+ level. We’re explicitly looking for someone current to this role who is keen to grow
- Evidence 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
- Strong architectural foundation with experience owning complex systems end-to-end, including roadmap creation, system design, implementation, and long‑term evolution
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior level IC when needed, especially during early context‑building
- Clear communication skills with the ability to explain complex system designs to technical and non-technical audiences

Additional Experience That Would Be Valuable

- Experience working on data pipelines at scale, especially in combination with RAG systems
- Experience with ingestion systems that can handle heterogeneous data, both trusted

📌 Engineering Manager (Toronto)
🏢 Blue J
📍 Toronto