Front End Engineer, Blink
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London )
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
Posted today
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
21-100 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London )
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 frontend developer who is passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience with React (or similar frameworks), and tools such as Redux Toolkit, RTK/Tanstack Query, React Router, Webpack/Rspack, Cypress/Playwright, Next.js, Node.js, and GitHub Actions
- A solid understanding of web development best practices, including responsive design, accessibility, and performance optimisation
- A passion for building clean, maintainable, and testable code
- A self-starter attitude, eager to learn and thrive in a high-functioning team
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working cross-functionally with designers and backend engineers
- A keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering user-centric solutions
What the job involves
- Reports to: Engineering Manager
- As a Front End Engineer at Blink, you will work within a cross-functional squad to develop and enhance the user interface of our platform
- Your work will focus on creating fast, responsive, and accessible web applications, while collaborating with designers and product managers to ensure a seamless user experience
- You’ll also help shape the future of our frontend stack by introducing best practices and optimising our development processes
- Develop Frontend Solutions: Design and build efficient, reusable, and responsive UI components using modern web technologies. You will work with TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React (or similar frameworks) to deliver high-quality frontend features
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to deliver cohesive product features, focusing on the user experience
- Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while ensuring performance optimisation. Participate in code reviews and use automated testing tools to guarantee the stability and performance of the UI
- Contribute to Frontend Architecture: Provide input on frontend architecture and work to continuously improve the frontend codebase, processes, and tooling to enhance development efficiency and product scalability
Salary benchmarks
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Growing fast
"This is what attracts me to SAAS based organisations early in their growth. There is a real opportunity to be part of the 'Blink Story' and my role..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$19.5m
SERIES A
May 2020
$11.2m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $31.3m
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
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
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
Articles
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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