Backend Engineer

📍 Location: Remote

🚀 This squad is fully remote, ideally based within European time zones, and works closely with US customers and partners.

We're not just closing the digital divide; we're reconnecting distributed organisations, enabling seamless communication, and re-engaging employees like never before. Blink, a mobile-first employee experience platform, puts everything employees need right in their hands. With teams in Boston, London, and Sydney, we're making waves worldwide, partnering with industry leaders like Domino’s, JD Sports and McDonald’s.

We’re forming our first engineering squad dedicated to accelerating Blink’s growth in the United States. The US is a key market for us, and this team will play a direct role in building products and integrations that meet the needs of US customers.

As part of this squad, you’ll work with a high degree of ownership, delivering outcomes end to end for US customers, including core integrations with partners such as Workday. The team will run its own roadmap while staying aligned with other engineering squads on shared initiatives and technical direction.

As a Backend Engineer at Blink, you will work within a cross-functional squad alongside developers, designers, and product managers to build and enhance our platform’s backend infrastructure. Your work will directly impact thousands of frontline workers, providing them with essential tools for their day-to-day activities. You will be responsible for designing, building, testing, and launching new product features on top of our backend stack, ensuring the platform remains scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain.

• Design and Build Solutions: Develop technical solutions to solve real-world user problems by building new functionality on top of Blink’s existing backend stack, which includes Scala, Akka, AWS, Aurora MySQL, GitOps, Kafka, and more.
• Write Clean, Maintainable Code: Produce well-documented, testable, and maintainable code, ensuring it is easy to read and modify while supporting rapid iteration and continuous delivery.
• Collaborate and Share Knowledge: Work closely with other engineers, teaching best practices and contributing to the future direction of our backend stack. You will also refine our development tooling and processes to enhance efficiency.
• Debug and Optimise: Debug issues, fix bugs, and continuously improve application performance to ensure a seamless experience for users.
• Support Cross-Functional Teams: Assist customer-facing teams by providing backend support for requests such as statistics or data analysis, ensuring they have the information they need to assist users.

We’re looking for a talented, ambitious individual who thrives in a fast-paced, growing environment. You should be a resourceful, inquisitive, and quick learner, with a passion for solving customer problems and making a real impact. In addition, you will have:

• 3+ years of experience working with any JVM language (we use Scala).
• A passion for working with globally distributed, scalable systems.
• Experience or a solid understanding of SQL and relational database concepts.
• A strong understanding of transport protocols, including RESTful concepts, gRPC, and WebSockets.
• A self-starter attitude, eager to learn and thrive in a high-functioning team.
• A solution-focused mindset, committed to helping customers and teams find answers to their challenges.
• Excellent collaborative skills, able to build strong cross-functional relationships.
• A process improvement mindset, with a keen ability to identify and implement improvements in a rapidly scaling environment.

You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful.

Most importantly, you’ll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious and supportive team embarking on a journey most start-ups can only dream of!

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary.
• Stock options on starting and additional high performer grants annually! 
• 25 days’ leave + public holidays.
• Additional time off between Christmas and New Year.
• Private healthcare with AXA.
• 3% employer pension contribution when you contribute 5%.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Social events ( lunches, breakfasts, nights out).
• Enhanced parental leave.

At Blink, we’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone feels they truly belong. We value individual differences and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.