Blackbullion is an award winning edtech company transitioning into fintech. We work with over 60 clients across the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland providing financial education, access to funding and tools to manage money to students around the world. So far in 2024 we've scaled up our team, launched our app and started our Series A funding round.
We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join our engineering team. You'll be leading on the development of our student and client facing web platform which delivers learning content, funding opportunities and analytics to our users. This is primarily a backend role but you'll have the opportunity to work on features end-to-end.
Day to day, you will also be mentoring and managing the other engineers in the platform team.
In short, you're a product-focused engineer interested in building out experiences that truly make a difference for our growing student and client userbase. You'll be taking ownership of new features alongside scaling up our existing platform.
The web platform stack includes:
Requirements
Bonus points
Please note we cannot sponsor visas at this time. We are only accepting applications from UK-based candidates.
Benefits
💰 Competitive salary: We offer competitive salaries and regularly benchmark the role against other companies. We review salaries annually to ensure we continue to pay fairly.
📈 Options : Every team member is granted options under the EMI scheme: we want everyone to “have skin in our game” and be part of our success.
📚 Learning & development: We have a large training budget set aside for every member of staff and we will do our best to contribute to anything you want to learn – whether through courses, books or more formal learning. We're also able to provide AWS certification courses for our engineers.
🏖 Time off: 32 days of holiday (incl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off too – we strongly believe in recharging and re-energising regularly.
💻 Equipment: We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so you’ll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home.
🚲 Cycle to work & tech scheme: Save up to 40% on a new bike and/or equipment and also on gadgets and tech.
⏳ Flexible working: You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. We do regularly get together as we believe that proximity is still best for culture and we take that stuff pretty seriously!
🌵 Office: Our gorgeous new office in Shoreditch is available as, and when, you want to use it. We aim to be together at a minimum monthly but some people come in 2-3 days a week.
