Front End Engineer

Blink - The Employee App; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A mobile-first employee experience platform is seeking a Front End Engineer. In this remote role, you will focus on developing fast, responsive, and accessible web applications, collaborating with designers and product managers to enhance user experience. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React, along with a passion for creating exceptional user experiences in a collaborative environment. Competitive salary and equity are offered, along with private health insurance and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private health insurance

Learning & development focus

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with React (or similar frameworks).
• Solid understanding of web development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop efficient, reusable, and responsive UI components.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Skills

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

React

Redux Toolkit

Cypress/Playwright

Tools

GitHub Actions

Next.js

Node.js

Job description

📍 Location: Remote

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

About Blink

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.

Role Overview:

As a Front End Engineer, you will work 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.

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.

💚 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.