Engineering Lead

Job Description

Our Mission

We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives. Our technology is the link that connects the entire benefits ecosystem, creating better outcomes for employers, employees, brokers, and providers.

Our mission is clear: we're here to create a world where everything operates at its very best, ensuring that every employee receives the support they need to live life to the fullest, both at work and beyond.

Your Mission

As an Engineering Lead at Ben, you will be joining at a unique time in the evolution of our product-engineering organisation as we develop domain-specific specialisation which allows us to deliver excellence at speed in small squads with high levels of ownership.

You’ll own the technical direction & implementation of a product domain at Ben with end to end responsibility.

The Engineering Lead position at Ben is a hybrid role: 50% individual contributor and 50% people coach. We want you to be hands-on in solution design, system architecture and feature development, while also helping the engineers within your squad to master their skills, remove roadblocks and consistently deliver at a high level.

What you'll be working on

• Design, implement and deliver software features with full ownership, using your senior technical expertise

• Take responsibility for the coaching, mentoring and mastery within your squad to develop & maintain a high-performance engineering squad

• Drive initiatives across squads and chapters to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with other engineering leads and stakeholders on platform wide technical challenges

• Take full accountability and own delivery, progress and quality of your a squad

• Collaborate with product stakeholders and other members of the squad to scope and estimate optimal solutions for business problems

• Ensure that security considerations are taken into account, based on current best practices (e.g. OWASP Top 10, AWS Well-Architected Framework) in all software development and infrastructure projects

Behind the scenes

Our cross-functional delivery squads are focused on business goals and solving problems in an efficient manner. We want the squads to collaborate on new ideas and projects to find the best solutions.

Ben is built on Python 3, Django, PostgreSQL and React. We run on AWS and follow engineering best practices, with a pragmatic approach.

You'll love this role if you are/have...

• Fluent in Python or one of the following major programming languages: Go, Rust, C, C#, C++ or Java

• Experience (or willingness to learn) with Typescript and modern web frameworks like React

• Proven track record in leading and/or coaching software development squads

• Have a strong background in software engineering, systems design and data modelling

• Excellent software engineering knowledge: Clean architecture & design patterns, SOLID design principles and clean code

• Apply information security in building secure web applications

• Understand and appreciate the principles and practices of agile and lean ways of working, but with a pragmatic edge

• Excellent communication skills adaptable to both tech and business audiences

and you...

• are a self-starter who thrives on autonomy, enjoys a rapid pace and wants to make a difference

• have a continuous improvement mindset. You appreciate that there are always ways to do things better and ensure your squad does too

• have a preference for action-oriented behaviour with just enough analysis, as compared to too much time spent doing analysis with no action

• have the ability to make decisions balancing different factors such as business requirements, technical integrity, overall priorities etc.

• are collaborative, able to work across squads and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences

• are solution-focused with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving

• are excellent at time management

• are a leader who always prioritises squad/business/user success and celebrates it as if they are your own

• appreciate the opportunities and challenges of a distributed work environment

Diversity and Culture at Ben

We are organically growing a brilliantly diverse, inclusive and respectful bunch of people we are extremely proud of. This should go without saying but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application, just let us know by emailing jobs@thanksben.com.

Our BENefits (... It's all in the name! 😉)

💰 Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build

💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by £50 for each year of service until you reach £250

🔋 £1000 annual Learning & Personal Development Ben Balance: plus 3 days paid study leave a year to support you with your professional development

👩🏽‍💻 £500 work from home set up allowance, which you can put towards your home office

🍔 Weekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food!

🏖 28 days of holidays a year (plus bank holidays, which you have the option of swapping for days of celebration that are significant to you)

🌴 ...and an option to buy or sell 5 days per year. Also, your holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days at your 3rd year of service!

🍼 Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting

🧠 Comprehensive and tailored mental health support through a leading provider

💪 Access to a Gympass membership!

❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance

🍿 Team activities: we have quarterly team social budgets to support spending time together and we frequently organise company wide events

📅 Flexible working - we're serious about life/work balance