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# Engineering Lead at Blinq

- **Company:** Blinq
- **Location:** Melbourne, Australia
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/blinq/a823a17b-9281-49fc-a166-dc21ab79c866

## Job description

## About Blinq

Blinq is the AI contacts app for people who meet people. We're on a mission to unlock the world's relationship potential. So much of what's possible in the world is locked inside relationships that never quite happen. A missed conversation, a forgotten follow-up, the right person at the wrong time. We're building so those chances aren't left to chance. What started as the world's #1 digital business card is now used by 4 million professionals and at 93% of the Fortune 500. We've raised $45m+ from Blackbird, Square Peg, HubSpot Ventures, and Touring Capital. Learn more: https://blinq.me/

## Why join Blinq

You want to be part of an AI-native company at an inflection point. Big enough to have real momentum, customers, and resources. Small enough that the work you do shapes where it goes from here. You want to do the best work of your life alongside people doing the same. We hold an unusually high bar for talent and we hire people who treat that as a feature, not a threat. You want to build something globally ambitious from a part of the world that doesn't always think this big. Our team is in Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco, and New York, and we're betting that the next category-defining company in our space comes from Australia. You want to work in person, on purpose. Three days a week in the office, two wherever works for you. Creative energy and momentum compound face to face.

## How we work

We've all joined Blinq to find out how good we really are. That shows up in how we work: We are professional optimists. We think what's possible first and let constraints come second. We hold an insanely high talent bar. A players only. We are obsessed with craft. The details are the thing, not the polish on top of it. We are truth obsessed. We say what's true even when it's uncomfortable, and we have the courage to pursue contrarian but correct bets. We do more with less. Calculated frugality and beautiful simplicity guide how we build. We are all here to genuinely do our life's best work. Engineering at Blinq Our engineering team is the engine behind Blinq’s success. We’re building tools that make sharing who you are instant and human. Every line of code, every release, and every experiment is focused on driving meaningful impact. If you thrive on solving complex, high-impact problems with a tight-knit team, you’ll feel right at home here.

## About the role

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to shape the technical foundations behind Blinq’s next stage of growth. You’ll work across architecture, platform engineering and developer experience, helping our squads build systems that are reliable, maintainable and ready to scale. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role. You’ll work through system designs, review and contribute code, investigate difficult problems and help engineers make sound decisions about how we build. You’ll bring the judgment to know when to invest in a stronger foundation, when to simplify and when to ship. With a strong platform engineering background, you’ll connect decisions about infrastructure, data, services and deployment to their impact on product development. Your work should make it easier for every squad to deliver high-quality software. You’ll also lead practical improvements in how we use AI throughout engineering, testing approaches in real workflows and turning what works into shared tools and practices. We’re looking for someone who has been an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager or Engineering Director and has maintained strong technical depth. You enjoy developing engineers through the work itself, alongside clear feedback and consistent people leadership. How our engineering team is structured Our engineers work in squads, with squad leads guiding day-to-day priorities and delivery. The Engineering Lead works across those squads, helping resolve shared technical challenges, strengthen engineering standards and make decisions that hold up across the wider platform. All engineers report to the Engineering Lead, with fortnightly 1:1s providing consistent feedback, development and support. Our player-coach approach means contributing directly while helping others become stronger engineers. You might pair on a difficult implementation, challenge a system design, investigate a production issue or build a tool that removes a recurring bottleneck. You’ll give squad leads the context and support to make good decisions and own their delivery.

## What you’ll do

Lead technical direction and architecture Work with engineers and squad leads to design systems, review proposals and make clear trade-offs across performance, reliability, security, cost and complexity. Guide how services, APIs and data models evolve as our products grow. Identify technical dependencies across squads and help teams solve problems with the wider system in mind. Turn technical debt into focused improvements, balancing longer-term architecture with immediate product needs. Stay hands-on with engineering Contribute code, prototypes and tooling where your experience can unblock progress or establish a better approach. Review code and designs with a high bar for correctness, testing and maintainability. Pair with engineers on complex problems, helping them build both the solution and their technical judgment. Work through production issues, identify root causes and help put lasting improvements in place. Strengthen our platform and developer experience Improve CI/CD, development environments and internal tooling so engineers can build, test and release with confidence. Help evolve cloud infrastructure and deployment practices to support reliable, efficient operations. Strengthen observability and use production evidence to identify reliability and performance bottlenecks. Reduce manual work and unnecessary complexity through automation and well-designed shared capabilities. Drive AI-enabled engineering Trial and implement AI-assisted workflows for development, testing, code review, documentation and debugging. Build repeatable practices and tooling that help the whole team benefit from what works. Set clear standards for validating generated code, protecting sensitive information and maintaining human ownership of technical decisions. Measure the effect on delivery time, review effort and software quality, and adapt when an approach creates more work than it saves. Develop technical capability across the team Coach engineers and squad leads on system design, debugging, operational ownership and technical decision-making. Use fortnightly 1:1s to provide direct feedback, support development and set clear expectations. Build consistent engineering practices across squads while preserving their ownership of implementation and delivery. Support hiring and onboarding with a strong focus on technical capability, judgment and craft.

## What you’ll bring

Strong software engineering foundations and recent hands-on experience designing, building and operating production systems. A strong platform engineering background, with direct experience improving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling and reliability. Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager or Engineering Director, with responsibility for people management and technical outcomes. The ability to move confidently between architecture, code and production behaviour, and explain the trade-offs at each level. Experience evolving systems in a startup or scale-up, including making pragmatic decisions about technical debt, scalability and delivery. Practical experience introducing AI into engineering workflows, with evidence of how it improved the team’s work. A track record of growing engineers’ technical capability through pairing, code review, feedback and coaching. Strong product judgment: you can connect technical investment to customer needs and business priorities. A preference for simple, maintainable solutions and the confidence to challenge unnecessary complexity. What success looks like Squads make sound technical decisions with clear ownership and fewer unresolved dependencies. Our platform becomes easier to develop on, operate and extend. Build and release workflows are faster and more reliable, with less manual intervention. Technical improvements produce measurable gains in reliability, performance or engineering effectiveness. AI helps engineers deliver better work, with quality and review effort considered alongside speed. Engineers grow in technical judgment, confidence and ownership.

## What you get

Equity and ownership. We're building something massive and we want you to share in the upside. Genuinely. Competitive salary and a real growth path. As Blinq grows, your role and compensation grow with it. Time to switch off. 20 days of annual leave plus a flexible policy for everything life throws at you beyond that. Good times, often. Team lunches, padel, games nights, Barry's sessions. We like hanging out and it shows. Regular catered lunch at some of our offices, plus an always-stocked snack bar.

## About Blinq

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blinq provides a digital business card and AI-powered contact capture platform that helps professionals share identities, remember meetings, and sync leads into CRM systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $28.5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (with offices in Sydney, New York City, San Francisco)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Contact management, sales enablement, professional networking, event lead capture
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise and SMB teams) and B2C (individual professionals); used by employees at 93% of Fortune 500 companies
- **Mission**: “Unlock the world’s relationship potential” – making sure professional opportunities aren’t left to chance.

## Products & Services
- **[Digital Business Cards](https://blinq.me/)**: Create personalised digital cards shared via QR code, NFC tap, short link, email signature, or Apple Wallet. Recipients don’t need the app.
- **[AI Contact Capture & Enrichment](https://blinq.me/)**: Scan badges, business cards, or receive contact info back; AI automatically fills missing details and adds context (where/when you met).
- **[AI Notetaker](https://blinq.me/)**: Captures conversation notes and saves them with the contact, enabling follow-up triggers and CRM sync.
- **[Blinq Business](https://blinq.me/)**: Centralised management of team cards, dynamic email signatures, and branded lead capture; integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Entra.
- **Integrations & APIs**: Sync contacts as leads into CRM, provision cards via SSO, and manage email signatures remotely.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$3.8M (LinkedIn estimate)
  - Total Funding: $28.5M (Series A $25M led by Touring Capital, May 2025; earlier seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Touring Capital (lead), Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg Capital, **HubSpot Ventures**.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over **4 million users** across 500,000 companies ([blinq.me](https://blinq.me/))
  - Used by employees at **93% of Fortune 500** companies
  - On track to surpass **50 million card shares** in 2025
  - **#1 in Digital Business Cards** and **#1 in Event Lead Capture** on G2
  - 4.9/5 ★ rating on 150K+ App & Play Store reviews
  - **7,500+ business customers** managing employee cards at scale

## Competitive Advantages
- **B2C virality driving B2B adoption**: Individual users infect their organisations, creating bottom-up enterprise traction.
- **AI-native platform**: Combines card sharing, contact enrichment, and automatic note-taking in one seamless workflow.
- **Integration ecosystem**: Deep CRM and identity provider integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft, Google) reduce friction for sales and marketing teams.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, SSO – meeting corporate compliance requirements.
- **No app required for recipients**: Low friction for the person receiving the card.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Growing presence in US (NYC, SF) and Australia (Melbourne, Sydney).
- **Deepening AI capabilities**: Enhancing the AI Notetaker and contact enrichment to make relationship follow-up automatic.
- **Scaling business tier**: Onboarding more enterprise customers with custom branding, CRM sync, and remote management.
- **Building the category**: Reimagining the “start of every professional relationship” beyond the digital business card into a full contact intelligence platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “We’re here to serve” – customer-obsessed team with high talent bar and a focus on growth. “No glass ceilings” regarding role and compensation evolution.
- **Hybrid policy**: Three days in office, two remote. Offices in Melbourne (HQ), Sydney, New York, and San Francisco. Remote roles also available in US.
- **Time off**: 20 days annual leave plus a flexible policy for life events.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary (e.g., Technical Sales Engineer role posted at $140,000–$170,000/year) with clear growth path.
- **Perks**: Team offsites, dinners, games nights; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- **Engineering culture**: Building an AI-native platform at an inflection point – “big enough to have momentum, small enough that your work shapes the direction.”

## Sources
1. [blinq.me – Careers page](https://blinq.me/careers)
2. [blinq.me – Main site](https://blinq.me/)
3. [Jobs.lever.co – Technical Sales Engineer posting](https://jobs.lever.co/blinq/5056e8cd-e3d6-49b6-8d6e-0436bebeac3d)
4. [LinkedIn – Blinq company profile](https://ec.linkedin.com/company/blinq-me)
5. [blinq.me – Series A announcement](https://blinq.me/blog/blinq-raises-us-25m-series-a-to-reimagine-the-start-of-every-professional-relationship)

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