Analytics Engineer, Blink
£75-95k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
Open for applications
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£75-95k
+ Equity
3 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
- Strong proficiency in SQL - writing and optimizing complex queries, joins, window functions, performance tuning
- Experience with dbt (or equivalent) - building models, tests, documentation, version control
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts (star schemas, snowflake, slowly changing dimensions, partitioning, clustering)
- Experience working in a modern data stack (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, etc.)
- Comfortable working downstream (with BI/analytics users) and upstream (pipelines, ingestion) contexts
- Familiarity with BI tools (we use Thoughtspot and Power BI)
- Proficient in Python
- Solid software engineering skills, including version control, testing, and CI/CD
- Versatile and adaptable - comfortable working across the stack and able to rapidly learn new tools and solve novel problems
- You are a great communicator, equally comfortable engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in a lean or startup environment is a plus
What the job involves
- 📣 Reports to: CISO
- As our first dedicated data engineer, you will be the bridge between data infrastructure and analytics. You’ll own how raw data is turned into trusted, well-modelled datasets that power decision-making. This means building and optimising dbt models, defining core business metrics, establishing data quality standards and collaborating closely with our BI team and stakeholders
- Initially, it’s likely you’ll own these things end-to-end, but over time we’ll build a team around you. While your focus is the modelling layer, this is a scaleup environment and you'll need to be versatile - comfortable influencing upstream data design and pragmatically solving problems across the data stack
- Build, maintain, and optimize data transformations, models, and pipelines in dbt (or equivalent) - including testing, documentation, and version control
- Define, own, and monitor business metrics and models (e.g. dimension tables, slowly changing dimensions, aggregates)
- Collaborate with analysts, BI users, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into reliable data products (tables, views, metrics)
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and observability (tests, monitoring, alerting)
- Optimize SQL queries and transformations for performance in your data warehouse / lakehouse environment
- Support or own CI/CD workflows around analytics (e.g. git, reviews, deployment of transformation code)
- Build or maintain upstream data pipelines or ingestion processes when required
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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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
- 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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