Software Engineer, Full-Stack
Location: Mumbai, India (Hybrid)
Team: Product Development · Technology & Operations
Reports to: Engineering Lead / Head of Technology & Operations
Level: Mid-level
Employment type: Full-time
About Blue Matter
Blue Matter is a global life sciences strategy consultancy. We partner with biopharmaceutical and medtech companies to solve their most important commercial challenges across the product and brand lifecycle — from early strategy and portfolio decisions through launch readiness, commercialization, brand and customer strategy, organizational and operational design, and medical affairs. Our work shapes how breakthrough therapies reach the patients who need them.
We work alongside our specialist subsidiaries — Salience Learning, AIM, and Sam Brown — to bring deep scientific, commercial, and creative expertise to every engagement.
About BlueCortex and the team
BlueCortex is our proprietary, internal AI platform — the system our consultants rely on every day to work faster, think more sharply, and deliver more for clients. It is one of the firm’s most strategic investments.
We build BlueCortex on an agentic-first model. Our engineers direct AI coding agents to design, build, and ship software, rather than hand-writing the majority of code themselves. This is our core operating model — not an experiment — and it lets a small, senior team move at the pace of a much larger one. We’re looking for people who are genuinely excited to build this way.
We are expanding the platform significantly — including a major new Projects capability — and growing our engineering team across regions. This role is a key part of building out our Mumbai presence.
The opportunity
We’re growing our engineering team with a full-stack Software Engineer based in Mumbai. You’ll build and maintain core features of BlueCortex, our internal AI platform, and you’ll also help build the external, client-facing applications Blue Matter delivers to its life sciences clients. Working as part of a distributed team alongside our US-based engineers and product manager, you’ll take well-scoped work from a clear roadmap and turn it into reliable, production-grade software — growing your ownership and scope as you go.
Like everyone on the team, you’ll work agentic-first, using AI coding agents as a central part of how you build. We want someone who is excited to work at the frontier of AI-assisted development and to get genuinely good at it.
What you’ll do
Build and ship product
- Build and maintain BlueCortex features across the full stack: React on the frontend, Node/TypeScript on the backend, and Python where it makes sense.
- Take well-defined features from the product roadmap — including the new Projects capability — and deliver them as clean, tested, maintainable code.
- Own the quality of what you ship: write tests, handle edge cases, and care about the details that make software reliable.
Client-facing applications
- Build external, client-facing applications and tools that Blue Matter delivers to its life sciences clients, in addition to your work on the internal platform.
- Partner with consulting teams to turn client engagement needs into reliable, well-built software, often on engagement timelines.
- Handle client work with appropriate care for each client’s data, security, and confidentiality requirements.
Work agentic-first
- Use AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate delivery, while owning the correctness, security, and quality of the output.
- Build your skill at directing and reviewing AI-generated code and contribute ideas that make the whole team’s agentic workflow better.
Integrate and connect
- Integrate BlueCortex with Microsoft 365 and Azure services, relational and vector databases, and LLM APIs.
- Help build and maintain the connective tissue — APIs and integrations — that ties the platform together.
Collaborate across a distributed team
- Work day to day with the US-based engineering team and the product manager, with enough time-zone overlap for smooth coordination.
- Communicate clearly in writing: thoughtful pull requests, clear status updates, and good documentation are how distributed teams stay fast.
- Participate actively in code review, design discussions, and continuous improvement of the codebase.
Build responsibly
- Build with security and client-data confidentiality in mind — we handle sensitive life sciences and client information.
- Follow the team’s data-handling and access practices, and flag risks early.
What success looks like
- First 30 days: You’ve set up your environment, learned the codebase and our agentic workflow, and merged your first changes to production.
- First 60–90 days: You’re delivering features independently, reviewing others’ code, and trusted to own well-scoped pieces of the project's build-out.
- First year: You own a meaningful area of the platform; your work is consistently high quality, and you’ve grown into a dependable, senior-leaning contributor on a distributed team.
Our technical environment
Representative of how we work today, the stack evolves, and we choose pragmatic tools for the job.
- Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Python
- Frontend: React
- Backend: Node.js, REST APIs
- AI: Anthropic Claude and other model APIs; RAG; agentic patterns; Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Data: Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/SQL) and vector stores
- Cloud and platform: Microsoft Azure; Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Graph; Entra ID
- Tooling: Git/GitHub; modern CI/CD; AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code)
What you’ll bring
Required
- Typically, 3–6 years of professional full-stack engineering experience.
- Strong in JavaScript/TypeScript with React and Node; comfortable across the stack. Python is a plus.
- Good command of REST APIs, relational databases (and comfort with NoSQL), and cloud fundamentals.
- Genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted and agentic development and a desire to get great at working with LLMs.
- Excellent written communication and the self-direction to thrive on a distributed team.
- Based in Mumbai, able to work hybrid and maintain meaningful daily overlap with US hours.
Strongly preferred
- Some hands-on experience building LLM-powered features (RAG, agents, or model APIs).
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or Microsoft Graph.
- Experience working on a globally distributed engineering team.
Nice to have
- Exposure to life sciences, pharma, or other regulated industries.
- Experience with testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
Who thrives here
- Engineers who take ownership of outcomes and don’t need everything spelled out.
- Clear communicators who keep a distributed team in sync.
- People who care about quality and reliability, not just getting something working.
- Builders are genuinely excited about the leverage AI gives a small, capable team.
How we work
A small, senior, agentic-first team where engineers ship real features — not tickets in isolation. This is a hybrid role based in Mumbai, with a regular collaboration cadence and enough overlap with US hours for daily coordination. We optimise for impact and trust people to own their work.
Interview process
We aim to be efficient and respectful of your time. A typical process:
- Intro conversation with the hiring manager or engineering lead
- Practical technical exercise reflecting real work, including how you work with AI agents
- Technical and collaboration discussion with the team
- Values and ways-of-working conversation
- References and offer
Compensation and benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Performance bonus eligibility.
- Health insurance and other Blue Matter India benefits.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Budget for learning and AI tooling.
Location, eligibility, and logistics
- Based in Mumbai; hybrid working with meaningful daily overlap with US time zones.
- Must have the right to work in India.
Equal opportunity
Blue Matter is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse team and an inclusive workplace, and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on any legally protected basis.