Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and collaboration.
- Conduct 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support engineers in their professional development.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team growth strategies- including performance management tasks; annual reviews, merit, feedback conversations.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code—setting the standard for technical excellence within the team.
- Actively contribute to key development projects and unblock engineering challenges as needed.
- Guide architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making to ensure high-quality delivery.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and deliver solutions that meet user and business needs.
- Partner with Product to shape epics, plan sprints, and prioritize the backlog.
- Own team-level sprint planning, delivery timelines, and status reporting.
- Hold the team accountable to sprint commitments, ensuring timely delivery of epics and completion of tickets.
- Identify and manage technical dependencies and risks.
- Champion engineering best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.
- Drive continuous improvement in tools, workflows, and team processes.
- Help define and implement the long-term technical strategy for your team.
- Are proficient in Java while comfortable with adopting new technologies
Hands-On Development
Project & Stakeholder Management
Process & Technical Excellence
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 1–2+ years in a leadership or team lead capacity.
- You have hands-on experience building production applications with Java, ReactJS, and PostgreSQL, and are comfortable working with Docker-based deployments.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable, production-ready systems and applications.
- Comfortable contributing to both frontend and/or backend codebases, depending on the team’s needs.
- Solid understanding of modern development practices, architecture patterns, and engineering tools.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across cross-functional teams.
- Have experience delivering reliable, high-performance REST APIs.
- Have a strong interest in database & query performance tuning.
- Have experience and good understanding of scrum/agile development methodologies.
- Are experienced with code reviews, service ownership, fully automated testing, microservices, and rapid/continuous releases. Preferred Skills:
- You have technical experience with E-mail processing and tracking in large systems.
- Experience with serverless, queuing, streaming.
- Are comfortable with being on-call for support and interacting directly with clients if needed.
- You have worked directly in the finance industry and/or at a SaaS startup.
About the Company: The BlueMatrix team is made up of ambitious and passionate people who have turned technology development and client service into an art. Many have dedicated the majority of their career to growing the BlueMatrix brand and helping shape the investment research marketplace. With locations in Toronto, New York City, Durham, London, Edinburgh, and Timisoara, Romania, we collaborate across the globe for a unique perspective on the impact of technology in our industry.
BlueMatrix develops one-of-a-kind web applications for the authoring, distribution, and analysis of investment research, and for internal knowledge management and digital communications. Our mission is to streamline the publishing process on a global scale.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 1–2+ years of leadership or team lead experience
- Proficiency with Java
- Experience with AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS, Kinesis, SendGrid, Postfix, and Terraform
- Experience designing and delivering scalable, production-ready systems and applications
- Ability to contribute to frontend and/or backend codebases
- Understanding of modern development practices, architecture patterns, and engineering tools
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience delivering reliable, high-performance REST APIs
- Interest in database and query performance tuning
- Experience with Scrum or Agile development methodologies
- Experience with code reviews, service ownership, fully automated testing, microservices, and rapid or continuous releases
- Technical experience with email processing and tracking in large systems
- Experience with serverless, queuing, and streaming
- Comfort with on-call support and direct client interaction
- Experience in the finance industry and/or at a SaaS startup
What We Do
At BlueMatrix, we empower investment professionals with unique technology solutions to seamlessly author, distribute, consume, and evaluate investment research. Our clients range from leading international investment banks and wealth-management firms to independent research boutiques. BlueMatrix applications offer research productivity and compliance solutions for both sell-side and buy-side companies. The benefits of our systems include compliance oversight, company profiles, entitlements and internal readership statistics. At the company, we believe our success is contingent on maintaining close relationships with clients, allowing us to provide individually tailored solutions, and we place a premium on accountability, neutrality, and transparency. BlueMatrix is headquartered in New York City with offices located in Durham, NC; London; Edinburgh; and Timișoara, Romania. Follow BlueMatrix on Linkedin for an inside look at the company and what its like to work here.
