Senior Full-stack Engineer, Blackbullion

£70-80k

PHP

SQL

React

AWS

TypeScript

MySQL

Laravel

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

Financial wellbeing platform & app for young people

Job no longer available

Financial wellbeing platform & app for young people

21-100 employees

FintechB2CB2BEnterpriseEducationPersonal financeSaaS

Job no longer available

£70-80k

PHP

SQL

React

AWS

TypeScript

MySQL

Laravel

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

21-100 employees

FintechB2CB2BEnterpriseEducationPersonal financeSaaS

Company mission

To help students develop financial skills and confidence for life.

Job

Company

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 and 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 1M 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

Led by a woman

58% female employees

67% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jan 2024

$0.1m

GRANT

Oct 2022

$3.5m

SEED

Total funding: $4.8m

Company HQ

Edgware, UK

Leadership

Vivi Friedgut

(Founder & CEO)

Previously a Relationship Manager in Private Banking and a Business Development Manager at UJIA.

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