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Our technology is the link that connects the entire benefits ecosystem, creating better outcomes for employers, employees, brokers, and providers.\nOur 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.\n Your Mission\nAs a backend leaning Full-stack Engineer at Ben, you’ll help build and scale the features that power our platform from benefits browsing and payments to provider integrations and smart admin tooling.\nYou’ll take features from idea to production: understanding the problem, scoping solutions, building, shipping, and making sure what you deliver truly solves the need. 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At Ben, everything is connected so what you build helps power payroll workflows, provider integrations, notifications, and everything in between.\nAnd you’ll do all this as part of a fun, fast-moving startup, spending 2 days a week with the team in our Barbican office.\nThings you will be working on…\nBuild and ship backend-leaning fullstack features across the product (APIs, services, integrations, and React frontend)\n\nAre pragmatic and can balance shipping fast with thoughtful engineering\n\nWork closely with product managers to understand context and shape solutions early\n\nCollaborate with designers to create polished, intuitive experiences\n\nContribute to technical discovery, architecture thinking, and implementation planning\n\nAsk product and UX questions when something doesn't quite add up\n\nDesign with scale, reliability, and enterprise readiness in mind (security, compliance, flexibility)\n\nOwn your work from idea to production and care about the impact once it’s live\n\nHelp improve developer experience, tooling, and internal standards\n\nEnsure security best practices (OWASP, AWS Well-Architected, etc.) are embedded in how we ship software\n\nYou will thrive in this role if you…\nHave strong experience building modern web apps, especially backend systems\n\nAre comfortable in Python and TypeScript (or excited to learn quickly)\n\nCare about solving real user problems, not just closing tasks\n\nEnjoy collaborating directly with PMs and designers without needing perfect specs\n\nLike figuring out the how with autonomy and the why with curiosity\n\nKnow what it means to build for enterprise scale\n\nAre pragmatic able to balance scrappy shipping with thoughtful engineering\n\nCommunicate clearly and enjoy working with friendly, ambitious people\n\nNice-to-haves, but not deal-breakers:\nExperience with financial platforms, HR tech, or B2B SaaS\n\nExperience building reliable workflows with tools like Temporal\n\nYou willnotlove this role if you…\nPrefer a slow or highly predictable pace we move quickly and value action\n\nFeel uncomfortable owning projects end-to-end and being accountable for outcomes\n\nPrefer maintaining the status quo we challenge assumptions and improve constantly\n\nWant a heavily structured environment we’re still building processes as we grow\n\nStruggle with ambiguity or prefer prescriptive direction you’ll get context, but you’ll need to figure things out\n\nWait for others to take initiative this is a proactive, high-performance team\n\nNot sure if you meet 100% of the requirements?\nThat’s okay, careers aren’t linear. If you have a strong technical foundation, solid backend experience, and enthusiasm for fullstack engineering in a fast-moving startup, we’d love to hear from you. Just make sure you feel confident contributing meaningfully from day one.\n Our Compensation & Benefits\nIt’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. You can see a selection below, along with the full offering here.\n Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build\n £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\nWeekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food!\n 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!\nWork-from-abroad scheme, so you can support your travels, enjoy an extended holiday, or visit loved ones.\nEnhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting\n Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance\nFunded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase - this also includes an annual health check\nComprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider\nDiversity and Culture at Ben\nWe are organically growing a brilliantly diverse, inclusive and respectful bunch of people we are extremely proud of. 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