Senior Backend Engineer, Blink
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3-5 days a week in office
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
Open for applications
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
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 someone who is ambitious and wants to develop in a fast-growing company
- The successful candidate will be resourceful, inquisitive and a fast learner
- You’ll be able to pick up new concepts quickly and empathise with customer pain points
- 3+ years experience working with any JVM language (we use Scala)
- Passionate about working with globally distributed, scalable systems
- Experience, or a good understanding of SQL and (relational) database concepts
- Good understanding of different transport protocols, such as RESTful concepts, gRPC and web sockets
- A self-starter, eager to learn and thrive in a high functioning team
- Solution focused, looking to help people and customers in finding solutions to their problems
- A ruthless prioritiser, able to manage multiple projects at any time with strict adherence to deadlines
- Ability to establish and cultivate strong collaborative cross functional level relationships
- A process improvement mindset, able to identify and implement areas for improvement, particularly in a scaling environment
What the job involves
- You’ll work as part of our core backend engineering team, working cross-functionally with other developers, designers and product managers on a range of projects
- The role will be fundamental in designing, building, testing and launching new product features that have impact on the day to day lives of frontline workers
- Define technical solutions to solve real user problems, building out new functionality on top of our existing backend stack: Scala, Akka, AWS, Aurora MySQL, GitOps, Github Actions, Kafka, Dezium
- Writing clean, well-documented, testable, maintainable code that is easy to read and modify while rapidly iterating and shipping
- Collaborate with other backend developers at Blink, teaching us what you know, helping us set the future direction of our backend stack and refining our development tooling and processes
- Debugging, bug fixing and improving application performance
- Support customer-facing teams by assisting with requests for statistics or data analysis on the back end
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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
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
$18.5m
SERIES A
May 2020
$10.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $29.7m
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
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Founders
Sean Nolan
(CEO)Previously worked as Network & Security Engineer at Morse for 2 years and co-founded Tomorrow Communications
Diversity & 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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