Front End Engineer

Blink - Employee Experience Platform; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Front End Engineer at Blink, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the user interface of an innovative employee experience platform. Collaborating with a talented team, you'll develop fast, responsive web applications using modern technologies such as TypeScript and React, while ensuring best practices in code quality and user-centric solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity allocations

Private health insurance

A quirky, spacious office in London

Learning & development focus, plus mentorship

Supportive environment for growth and problem-solving

Private healthcare, Ride2Work, pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with React and various tools for frontend development.
• Understanding of web best practices including responsiveness and accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop and build efficient, reusable, and responsive UI components.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for cohesive product features.
• Adhere to code quality and testing standards for performance optimization.

Skills

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

React

Responsive Design

Performance Optimisation

Collaboration

Tools

Redux Toolkit

RTK/Tanstack Query

React Router

Webpack/Rspack

Cypress

Playwright

Next.js

Node.js

GitHub Actions

Job description

Location: London (Old Street office, 3 days/week)

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Company Overview:

Blink is an employee app for frontline workers, with industry-leading engagement and a DAU of 99%. 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 frontline workers globally.

Role Overview:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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
  
  
  

Requirements

About You:

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
  
  
  

Benefits

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 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.