Senior Software Engineer

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 a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a big part in the development of the core API layer and business logic in our platform, as well as engaging frontend components that follow the latest UI, UX and accessibility trends.

We’re looking for self-starters who are seeking a fast-paced environment where they can make a difference. Our team is small, which means high autonomy, ownership, and responsibility. We love what we do, have fun and, while we ship on time, take life-work balance seriously.

Things you will be working on…

• Design, implement and deliver web application features and projects with full ownership, using your technical expertise

• Specifically, implement API endpoints, business logic, complex frontend components and MVPs for our employee benefits management platform

• Deliver your implementations from start to finish

• Take ownership of business critical components, ensure their stability & maintainability

• Collaborate with product stakeholders and other members of the team 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 team is focused on business goals and solving problems in an efficient manner. We want the team to collaborate on new ideas and projects to find the best solutions.

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

We've just released our first ever Go service at Ben, so, whilst the language is relatively known, there's still huge amounts of work to be done here!

You’ll love this role if you are/have:

• Fluent in Python

• Strong experience with Django, or other related frameworks (Flask, FastAPI)

• Fluent in Typescript and/or JavaScript

• Experienced with at least one major web framework; ideally React.js

• Temporal.io experience (nice to have)

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

• Applied information security in building secure web applications and infrastructure configurations

• Have an understanding and appreciation of the principles and practices of agile and lean ways of working, but with a pragmatic edge

• An excellent communicator, 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 team does too

• have a preference to 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.

• appreciate the opportunities and challenges of a distributed work environment

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

Our BENefits

(... It's all in the name! 😉)

💰 Competitive base salary and 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

Our compensation & BENefits

It’s important to us to practise what we preach when it comes to our benefits. We know what good looks like and we want to provide the best for our team, with a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package.

We’ve built an offering that provides a selection of benefits across 5 key pillars: health & wellbeing, family, lifestyle, finance and social.

This means you have a choice over the things that are most important to you. You can see a selection below, along with the full offering here.

💰 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

🔋 £500 annual Learning & Development allowance: 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 kitting out 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!

🌴 Generous work-from-anywhere scheme, allowing you to work from abroad for up to 3 weeks, twice a year

🍼 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 choice of fitness memberships

❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance

💌 Funded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase

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

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.