Graduate Software Engineer, Blink

Summer 24 Start

Salary not provided

+ Equity

Java
Entry and Junior level
London

3-5 days a week in office

Blink

Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers

Job no longer available

Blink

Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseHRInternal toolsCommunicationSaaS

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

+ Equity

Java
Entry and Junior level
London

3-5 days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseHRInternal toolsCommunicationSaaS

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
  • You'll be resourceful, inquisitive and pick up new concepts quickly
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
  • Exposure to Java during your studies or work experience, would be an advantage
  • Excellent attention to detail, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
  • Ability to solve problems and apply analysis for data-driven decisions
  • Exceptional multitasking and adaptability. We're looking for self-starters who can manage multiple stakeholders and collaborate as part of a global team
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for problem-solving

What the job involves

  • Embark on your career as a key member of our world-class Product and Engineering team, building the Frontline of the Future
  • The applications you will help build are used by thousands of customers daily and make a tangible difference in their day-to-day lives
  • Focusing on delivery; ship code often and respond to customer feedback or issues quickly
  • Continuously improving (build) tools and developer experience; automating repetitive tasks, simplifying existing processes and documenting APIs and behaviour
  • Helping architect the high-level structure, flow of state and future direction of the Blink web platform
  • Writing clean, well-documented, testable, maintainable code that is easy to read and modify while rapidly iterating and shipping

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

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.

Insights

Rocket List 2021
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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

$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

Founders

Previously worked as Network & Security Engineer at Morse for 2 years and co-founded Tomorrow Communications


People progressing

Joined as Customer Success Manager, being promoted to Customer Success Team Lead after 9 months and Head of Customer Success after 12 months.

Joined as our very first sales hire before being promoted to Head of Sales after 3 years, leading our current Sales team of 20.

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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