Backend Engineer, Blink
+ Stock options on starting and additional high performer grants annually
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
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Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options on starting and additional high performer grants annually
21-100 employees
Company mission
Blink's mission is to empower frontline workers to maximise their impact.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a talented, ambitious individual who thrives in a fast-paced, growing environment. You should be a resourceful, inquisitive, and quick learner, with a passion for solving customer problems and making a real impact. In addition, you will have:
- 3+ years of experience working with any JVM language (we use Scala)
- A passion for working with globally distributed, scalable systems
- Experience or a solid understanding of SQL and relational database concepts
- A strong understanding of transport protocols, including RESTful concepts, gRPC, and WebSockets
- A self-starter attitude, eager to learn and thrive in a high-functioning team
- A solution-focused mindset, committed to helping customers and teams find answers to their challenges
- Excellent collaborative skills, able to build strong cross-functional relationships
- A process improvement mindset, with a keen ability to identify and implement improvements in a rapidly scaling environment
What the job involves
- We’re forming our first engineering squad dedicated to accelerating Blink’s growth in the United States. The US is a key market for us, and this team will play a direct role in building products and integrations that meet the needs of US customers
- As part of this squad, you’ll work with a high degree of ownership, delivering outcomes end to end for US customers, including core integrations with partners such as Workday
- The team will run its own roadmap while staying aligned with other engineering squads on shared initiatives and technical direction
- As a Backend Engineer at Blink, you will work within a cross-functional squad alongside developers, designers, and product managers to build and enhance our platform’s backend infrastructure
- Your work will directly impact thousands of frontline workers, providing them with essential tools for their day-to-day activities
- You will be responsible for designing, building, testing, and launching new product features on top of our backend stack, ensuring the platform remains scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain
- Design and Build Solutions: Develop technical solutions to solve real-world user problems by building new functionality on top of Blink’s existing backend stack, which includes Scala, Akka, AWS, Aurora MySQL, GitOps, Kafka, and more
- Write Clean, Maintainable Code: Produce well-documented, testable, and maintainable code, ensuring it is easy to read and modify while supporting rapid iteration and continuous delivery
- Collaborate and Share Knowledge: Work closely with other engineers, teaching best practices and contributing to the future direction of our backend stack. You will also refine our development tooling and processes to enhance efficiency
- Debug and Optimise: Debug issues, fix bugs, and continuously improve application performance to ensure a seamless experience for users
- Support Cross-Functional Teams: Assist customer-facing teams by providing backend support for requests such as statistics or data analysis, ensuring they have the information they need to assist users
Our take
Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake up to using tech to better connect with these employees, and investors eye up an interesting and new growth opportunity in enterprise IT.
Blink’s particular approach has been to try to create a user interface, and functionality, that caters both to asynchronous activities as well as real-time information, the idea being that front-line workers are most likely not going to be looking at the app continuously throughout the day, so the priority for making sure important things surface when they do is especially higher.
Blink was founded in London — where it has found strong traction with metropolitan bus networks and the NHS (where thousands of frontline workers in clinical and nonclinical roles are on Blink).
Now Blink is HQ’d in New York in an attempt to focus on the U.S. market. There are an estimated 2.7 billion people working on the front line according to the company, so there’s a fair amount of room for growth despite an increasingly competitive landscape with well-funded projects like Justworks, Workplace from Meta and When I Work.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"There are some really smart people here who can process information quickly. There's an expectation that one is able to be self-solving while also..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$20.4m
SERIES A
May 2020
$11.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $32.4m
Company benefits
- Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
- All the traditional benefits such as Health Insurance (AXA Health), Ride2Work and Pension schemes
- Ability to grow, learn and solve a variety of challenges, working in a supportive environment with smart, driven people
- Office fridge filled with snacks and drinks, regular team lunches and socials
- The opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, meaningful & fulfilling
- 20 days holiday
Company values
- Always aim to delight - Own the outcome and exceed expectations
- Move fast and think big - Be curious, inquisitive and set the agenda
- Be a positive catalyst - Inspire positive change with a helpful attitude
- Never stop learning - We thrive when sharing knowledge and supporting each other
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
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Leadership
Sean Nolan
(CEO)Previously worked as Network & Security Engineer at Morse for 2 years and co-founded Tomorrow Communications
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Blink
Blaise Daldin (Sourcing Lead)
- We know there’s much more to be done, and are actively invested in driving deep, meaningful change towards broader representation in our workforce. All leaders and employees involved in the hiring process will undergo inclusion and unconscious bias training, while looking to support and partner with diverse communities and networks at every opportunity.
- Diversity and inclusion remain our #1 priority as the team continues to grow. We’ve added new recruitment initiatives over the past six months to attract a wide range of applicants that generates a diverse shortlist for every new role. We’ve also reviewed our employer branding and advertising to ensure content and language are inclusive throughout. So far, this has improved our gender balance by 20%:
- Blink is committed to nurturing a culture of belonging that celebrates diversity in all its forms – and encourages employees to bring their whole selves to work.
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