Front End Engineer

Blink - The Employee App; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-driven employee engagement platform is seeking a Front End Engineer to enhance their user interface. In this role, you will design and implement responsive web applications using TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React. You will collaborate closely with designers and product managers, ensuring high-quality, accessible solutions. This position offers competitive salary, private health insurance, and a vibrant office environment in London, with a focus on learning and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity allocations

Private health insurance

Learning & development focus

Mentorship options

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of modern web technologies including TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with React and its ecosystem and tools.
• Understanding of web development best practices such as accessibility and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable and responsive UI components.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience.
• Participate in code reviews and write clean, maintainable code.

Skills

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

React

Redux Toolkit

Cypress

Tools

Webpack

GitHub Actions

Node.js

Next.js

Tanstack Query

Job description

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 focus will be on creating fast, responsive, and accessible web applications while collaborating with designers and product managers to ensure a seamless user experience. You will also help shape the future of our frontend stack by introducing best practices and optimising our development processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop Frontend Solutions: Design and build efficient, reusable, and responsive UI components using modern web technologies such as TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React (or similar frameworks).
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

About Blink

Blink is an employee app for frontline workers, with industry‑leading engagement and a DAU of 99%. We are scaling our platform through innovation, precision, and automation. As part of our world‑class engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in building intuitive, impactful user interfaces that support frontline workers globally.

Why Blink?

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

• 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.