Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Blackbullion
App
The ultimate finance space for GenZ
Be an early applicant
The ultimate finance space for GenZ
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help young people develop financial skills for life.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have a strong background in building scalable and high-performing mobile applications
- If you are passionate about mobile development and would like to play a part in shaping the future of our product, we would love to hear from you
- Technical Expertise: Demonstrated proficiency in Laravel for backend development. Experience with React Native is highly preferred, although strong React skills are also acceptable
- Leadership Experience: Proven track record of leading development teams, with a focus on mentoring and growth
- Cloud Technologies: Practical knowledge of AWS Lambdas and familiarity with cloud-based architecture
- Professional Skills: Exceptional organisational and communication abilities, essential for effective teamwork and cross-functional cooperation
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented full-stack developer with expertise in Laravel, React Native (React also considered) and Typescript to join our dynamic team
- Join us in creating innovative and user-friendly applications that make a difference to students & young people in the UK
- Leadership & Management: Direct a skilled team of developers, overseeing task assignments to ensure balanced workloads and project alignment
- Backend Development: Champion the development of backend systems using Laravel, aiming for high-quality, scalable software solutions
- Frontend Engineering: Develop and sustain frontend architecture using React Native (strongly preferred) or React, ensuring seamless, intuitive user interfaces
- Collaborative Development: Work closely with product managers to deliver end-to-end features and enhancements
- Release Coordination: Manage all aspects of application deployment, from initial planning to final rollout, guaranteeing timely and efficient releases
- Performance Optimization: Utilise AWS Lambdas and other cloud technologies to enhance application performance and scalability
- 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
58% female employees
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$0.1m
GRANT
Oct 2022
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.5m
Company benefits
- 📚 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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