Front End Engineer

📍 Location: London (Old Street office, 3 days/week)
📣 Reports to: Engineering Manager

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 scaling our platform through innovation, precision, and automation. As part of our world-class engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in building intuitive, impactful user interfaces that support distributed workers globally.

As a Front End Engineer at Blink, you will work within a cross-functional squad to develop and enhance the user interface of our platform. Your work will focus on creating fast, responsive, and accessible web applications, while collaborating with designers and product managers to ensure a seamless user experience. You’ll also help shape the future of our frontend stack by introducing best practices and optimising our development processes.

• Develop Frontend Solutions: Design and build efficient, reusable, and responsive UI components using modern web technologies. You will work with TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React (or similar frameworks) to deliver high-quality frontend features.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to deliver cohesive product features, focusing on the user experience.
• Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while ensuring performance optimisation. Participate in code reviews and use automated testing tools to guarantee the stability and performance of the UI.
• Contribute to Frontend Architecture: Provide input on frontend architecture and work to continuously improve the frontend codebase, processes, and tooling to enhance development efficiency and product scalability.

We’re looking for a talented frontend developer who is passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. In addition, you will have:

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with React (or similar frameworks), and tools such as Redux Toolkit, RTK/Tanstack Query, React Router, Webpack/Rspack, Cypress/Playwright, Next.js, Node.js, and GitHub Actions.
• A solid understanding of web development best practices, including responsive design, accessibility, and performance optimisation.
• A passion for building clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• A self-starter attitude, eager to learn and thrive in a high-functioning team.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working cross-functionally with designers and backend engineers.
• A keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering user-centric solutions.

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 and equity allocations with significant upside potential.
• Private health insurance.
• A quirky, spacious, natural light-filled office in London.
• Learning & development focus, plus mentorship options. We’ll do everything we can to get you to the top of your game.
• The ability for you to grow, learn, and solve a variety of challenges, working in a supportive environment with smart people.
• Private healthcare, Ride2Work, pension scheme.

At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong. We value and respect individual differences, so all applications will receive fair and equal consideration without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or age.