DevOps Engineer, Blackbullion
£40-70k
Plus equity options
The ultimate finance space for GenZ
Be an early applicant
The ultimate finance space for GenZ
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£40-70k
Plus equity options
21-100 employees
Company mission
Blackbullion's mission is to help young people develop financial skills for life.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a devops engineer with at least 4 years of experience building, scaling and maintaining cloud infrastructure
- We’re also looking for someone with engineering experience with a language like Python or Typescript
- Product team experience is also a bonus
What the job involves
- As the sole dev ops engineer at Blackbullion, you will have a significant impact on shaping our infrastructure and development processes
- You will be responsible for building and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, and automating workflows to ensure seamless software delivery
- Given our small team, you’ll be wearing multiple hats to ensure our systems are scalable, secure, and reliable
- Cloud Management and Monitoring: maintaining our existing AWS-based infrastructure
- System Monitoring and Incident Response: ensuring observability across all of Blackbullion’s products and swiftly addressing issues
- Security and Compliance: building security into every component of our infrastructure and ensuring compliance with security standards across our stack
- Performance Optimisation: identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in products and infrastructure
- Cost Optimisation: monitoring infrastructure costs and making sensible decisions when it comes to balancing performance and price
- Keeping up to date with industry trends, tools and best practices
- Regularly testing our backup and recovery processes
- Identifying key areas for automation and working with the development team to introduce tooling where necessary
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Blackbullion is a digital financial wellbeing platform that streamlines and simplifies the discovery, application, receipt and effective use of student funding. It provides courses to learn financial skills to develop financial confidence and knowledge, and empower better decision making. It also helps locate funding for education through university funds, scholarships and bursaries.
The platform uses gamification through data modelling, personalised learning through machine learning and features that use augmented reality. The founder, Vivi Friedgut, spent the early part of her career managing the wealth of high-net-worth families and individuals. It was that work that made her question what could be achieved if financial education became more accessible.
Blackbullion is deployed on campuses across the UK, Australia, and New Zealand and almost 1 million students have access. The company is actively trying to widen participation cohorts, especially for first-in-family and marginalised students. Increasingly the platform is forming a major part of university retention strategies and has attracted funding from major future learning investors such as MPA Education and Emerge Education.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$0.1m
GRANT
Oct 2022
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.5m
Company benefits
- 📈 Options: Every team member is granted options under the EMI scheme: we want everyone to “have skin in our game” and be part of our success
- 📚 Learning & development: We have a training budget set aside for every member of staff and we will do our best to contribute to anything you want to learn – whether through courses, books, or more formal learning
- 🏖 Time off: 32 days of holiday (incl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off too – we strongly believe in recharging and re-energising regularly
- 💻 Equipment: We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so you’ll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home
- 🚲 Cycle to work & tech scheme: Save up to 40% on a new bike and/or equipment and also on gadgets and tech
- ⏳ Flexible working: You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. We do regularly get together as we believe that proximity is still best for culture and we take that stuff pretty seriously!
- 🌵 Office: Our gorgeous new office in Shoreditch is available as, and when, you want to use it. We aim to be together at a minimum monthly but some people come in 2-3 days a week
Company values
- Learning never stops
- Be proud of what we do
- Team above ego
- Mission first
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Vivi Friedgut
(CEO)Former Relationship Manager in private banking and current Member of the Advisory Group for Edtech UK.
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