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To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.\nWhy should you apply?\nGrowth: You'll own features end-to-end on a key product, with senior engineers alongside you to help you break down bigger problems and grow your scope.\n\nA clear path forward: We have published Engineering Career Pathways from Associate to Principal, so you know exactly what good looks like at your level and what the next step looks like.\n\nTechnology: AI-first by default, we're building our SDLC around AI-assisted engineering, and you'll be learning and shaping this alongside the rest of the team, not inheriting a finished playbook.\n\nTeam: Work with a talented, experience group of engineers dedicated to building high quality product for our users.\n\nSunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025\n\nWork for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space\n\nRole Overview\nReady to shape the core experience that connects everything our customers do across the Benifex platform?\nWe're looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to work on the services that contribute to the Core Experience for our customers and their employees. The team owns the entry point to our benefits product suite - Home, content creation, global navigation, search, translations.\nYou'll design and build robust, API-driven, event-oriented services that power a seamless, consistent experience across multiple products.\nIf you're passionate about clean APIs, data modelling, event-driven architecture, and setting architectural direction, this role puts you right at the heart of the platform.\nStack: Java, Spring Boot, REST API's, MongoDB, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.\n**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**\nGreat benefits:\n£45,000-75,000\nTech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)\n£/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.\nFlexible work - choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.\nFull access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more\n25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays\nYour birthday off\nTwo half day wellbeing days\nHealthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare\nEmployee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support\nIncome Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)\nReferral bonuses\nEnhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave\nWork from Anywhere policy for 90 days\nBuy and Sell scheme for holidays\n£50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!\nResponsibilities\nCore Engineering\nDesign, build, and maintain high-quality REST APIs and backend services using Java and Spring Boot.\n\nImplement and evolve event-driven workflows using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to synchronise profile data across multiple products.\n\nImprove the performance, reliability, and observability of the service (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).\n\nArchitecture & Technical Direction\nWork closely with Senior Engineers and the rest of your team to influence the future architecture our systems, data contracts, and event schemas.\n\nContribute to the design and evolution of domain events, ensuring schema consistency, forward compatibility, and good modelling practices.\n\nInfluence engineering standards across the squad, including testing strategy, CI/CD improvements, and code quality practices.\n\nCollaboration\nCollaborate with product teams across the organisation to establish API contracts and deliver features.\n\nPartner with Platform, Data Engineering, and Security teams to ensure APIs, events, and data flows are compliant, secure, and well-governed.\n\nWork with frontend and mobile engineers to define clear, well-documented APIs (OpenAPI/Swagger).\n\nLeadership & Mentorship\nParticipate in architectural discussions, design reviews, and incident retrospectives, bringing strong backend expertise.\n\nWhat are we looking for?\nTechnical Fundamentals\nExperience building high-performance backend systems with Java and Spring Boot\n\nSolid understanding of event-driven architecture (EDA) and distributed system principles\n\nPractical experience with messaging systems (e.g., Google Cloud Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or similar)\n\nExperience working with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB Atlas\n\nComfortable working with and supporting production services in cloud environments\n\nHands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)\n\nWays of Working\nExperience working in a fast-paced agile environment, with a focus on flow efficiency, reducing WIP, and getting stories to Done\n\nExcellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills\n\nBonus Points! ⭐\nExperience mentoring engineers, fostering growth and supporting good engineering practices.\n\nExperience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)\n\nExperience with Keycloak or other identity/auth frameworks\n\nExperience with observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus)\n\nEven if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.\nOur interview process\n Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.\nInitial informal call with the Talent team\nInterview with our Engineering Manager 30 min\nTechnical Task\nTechnical Interview - 60 min\nFinal interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\nWe are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. 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