Senior Full-stack Engineer, Blackbullion
£70-80k
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The ultimate finance space for GenZ
Open for applications
The ultimate finance space for GenZ
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£70-80k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Blackbullion's mission is to help young people develop financial skills for life.
Role
Who you are
- 4-5 years backend experience (ideally with a statically typed language) + relevant frontend experience
- Experience with source control, CI & CD
- Competent in writing robust unit tests
Desirable
- Experience working in a startup environment and/or product-led company
- SQL and database design experience
- Experience working with common AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda)
- Experience working with financial data
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join our engineering team
- You'll be leading on the development of our student and client facing web platform which delivers learning content, funding opportunities and analytics to our users
- This is primarily a backend role but you'll have the opportunity to work on features end-to-end
- Day to day, you will also be mentoring and managing the other engineers in the platform team
- In short, you're a product-focused engineer interested in building out experiences that truly make a difference for our growing student and client userbase
- You'll be taking ownership of new features alongside scaling up our existing platform
Application process
- Initial call with the CTO (30 mins)
- Take home coding challenge
- Final interview with the CTO, Senior Product Manager and a senior engineer (1 hour)
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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