Lead Full Stack Engineer

🚀We are looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team. This role is suitable for someone who is in a Senior Engineer position, has worked across different tech stacks both front and back end, and has had a broad experience tackling problems with around 5-8 years experience. This role will be the step up in your career into a lead position potentially moving into a CTO role in the future.

ABOUT BLCKBX

BlckBx is an AI start-up. Our mission is to elevate family life for everybody and build personal assistant service of the future. We are a first mover in this space and have blue-chip clients - global law firms, management consultancies and financial services.

BlckBx Personal Assistance (B2B2C and B2C) - this is subscription to outsource all of your personal tasks and to-do lists to a dedicated BlckBx Assistant. Our platform is powered by AI which supercharges the Assistant to carry out work at 3% the cost of a traditional PA. This is provided as an employee benefit and a privately paid service.

WHERE WE'RE AT

We’ve built our platform and App and it’s live with corporate clients - we’re now accelerating development in all areas including AI & Machine Learning, refining the UX and improving the customer experience. We’re fully funded and scaling fast.

YOUR CHARACTER

• Customer Obsession: thinking, living and breathing the customer experience
• Tenacity & Grit: persisting and pushing through problems til you get the solution
• Kindness & No Ego: we foster a supportive and collaborative work environment 

THE ROLE

You will be responsible to work with the team to develop and maintain our internal web applications, platforms and client facing websites and App. You’d be working on front-end and back-end development, as well as databases and APIs. And you’d be co- managing the product end to end working directly with the CEO and Founder.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deploy new features
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Build and maintain scalable web applications with modern web technologies
• Develop, test, and deploy code in production environments
• Troubleshoot and debug issues
• Participate in code reviews and uphold coding standards
• Act as a gatekeeper for our production environment
• Mentor developers and manage the team
• Work with third party UX/UI designers  
• Talk to customers to get feedback

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

• Front-end and back-end technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP
• Modern front-end frameworks: React, Vue.js
• Database technologies: MySQL, Airtable
• AWS 
• Apache, Nginx, Linux (bonus)
• Git and version control
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Knowledge of AI/ML (advantageous)
• English - Fluent (and UK resident)

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science 
• Master an advantage

ADVANTAGE

• UX experience
• Product management experience

🚀Mission: Our mission is to end burn out and remove the mental load and time wasted by working families and professionals on every day administrative and personal tasks

We’re building the hybrid AI + Human Personal Assistant platform of the future

👫 Team: Engineering

🏷️ Title: Lead Developer / Head of Development

💷 Salary: c£60-70k depending on experience

📈 Equity: This role will be compensated with employee options worth £10k

🎁 Benefits: 26 days holiday, your birthday and your Blckbx birthday off

💻 Office Policy: Hybrid & Flexible

🌍 Location: Bracknell/Reading

🔢 Interview Process

• Video Interview to answer a few questions about yourself
• Technical Assessment Interview - meet some of the team, including product /engineering to see how you work and think about problems
• Final interview with Kath, our founder

🤩 Candidate Experience: Please note with the volume of applicants there may be a delay in response time. The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possible.

Please apply here and send an email about why you'd like the role to