Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Ben, you'll build the features that make our platform work: benefits browsing, payments, cashback, provider integrations, and the admin tools that HR teams rely on. You'll own features from problem through to production - scoping, building, shipping, and making sure they actually solve the problem.

You'll have real influence on what we build. Product Managers don't have a monopoly on good ideas here - you'll help shape the roadmap, balance customer requests against long-term product needs, and push back when something doesn't make sense. And you'll make the technical decisions that matter: how should this feature work under the hood? What's the right data model? How do we make sure this scales when we're 10x bigger?

At Ben, we think in systems. You'll be building infrastructure that supports benefit administration for hundreds of thousands of people - complex payroll systems, approval workflows, notification campaigns, provider integrations. Everything connects, so when you build something, you're thinking about the whole picture: what breaks upstream, what changes downstream, how do different providers handle this differently.

• Build and ship product features and abstraction layers across the stack (frontend, backend, APIs, integrations)

• Work closely with product managers to understand context and shape solutions

• Collaborate with designers to deliver polished, intuitive user experiences

• Contribute to technical discovery, architecture and implementation planning

• Raise product and UX questions when something doesn’t make sense

• Design for scale, reliability and enterprise needs (security, customisation, compliance)

• Own work from idea to production and care about the impact once it’s live

• Improve developer experience, tooling and standards

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

• Have strong experience building modern web applications (frontend + backend)

• Are comfortable working in Python and TypeScript (prior experience is preferred but if you are a fast learner, we are sure you can pick it up quickly)

• Care about solving real user problems, not just closing tickets

• Can collaborate with PMs and designers without waiting to be told every detail

• Enjoy figuring out the how with autonomy, and the why with curiosity

• Have experience in building for enterprise-scale requirements

• Are pragmatic: you know when to ship fast and when to think deeply

• Communicate clearly and enjoy working with friendly & ambitious people

• Experience building financial platforms, HR tech products or B2B SaaS

• Experience building reliable workflows with Temporal
  

• Need a slow pace to feel comfortable - we move fast, and we prioritise action, even when the path isn’t perfectly clear

• Are uncomfortable being accountable for outcomes - this role involves owning projects end-to-end and being responsible for making them succeed and delivering them at a high quality

• Prefer maintaining the status quo - we want to challenge assumptions and push for better ways of working

• Prefer a highly structured environment with established processes and clearly defined boundaries - we’re still building, and sometimes that means creating the path as we go

• Struggle with ambiguity or expect prescriptive direction - you’ll get support and context, but you’ll need to figure things out and take ownership

• Wait for others to step up, or to be told what to do - We are a high-performance and high-reward work place and are looking for people who are proactive

Not sure if you meet 100% of the requirements?

That’s okay - we know that not everyone follows a linear career path, and we value diverse perspectives and growth mindsets. If you have a solid technical foundation and a strong interest in full stack engineering, we’d still love to hear from you. That said, this role does require hands-on experience, so please only apply if you feel confident you can contribute meaningfully from day one.

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. This means you have a choice over the things that are most important to you.

💰 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

🏠 €1,000 work from home allowance to help you set yourself up for success, whether that's a standing desk, a comfy chair, or the tech setup that works best for you

📚 €1,000 annual L&D budget to invest in your professional development, from conferences and courses to coaching and books

🏖 28 days of holidays a year plus bank holidays, 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!

🧠 Comprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider

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 [email protected]. You can learn more about DEI at Ben here.