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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?\nGrow: 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\nTop 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards\n\nWork for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space\n\nAI first by default, we're building our SDLCaround AI Assisted engineering, and you'll be learning and shaping this alongside the rest of the team, not inheriting a finished playbook\n\nPlease 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 - £70,000\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 quarter in our UK HQ and you need to be based in UK, Ireland, Germany or the Netherlands\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)\nPension scheme\nEnhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave\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!\nRole Overview\nWe're looking for a Frontend Engineer to join the team behind Brain, Benifex's flagship AI-powered product.\nIn this role, you'll build the frontend experiences that enable Reward Directors to interact with Brain, helping them understand and compare employee reward and benefits packages across different countries and markets.\nYou'll work as part of a cross-functional product team alongside Engineers, Product Managers and UX Designers, transforming ideas and designs into intuitive, accessible and high-quality user experiences. Frontend engineers play a key role in shaping how we build products, and you'll have the opportunity to influence technical decisions, tooling and best practices within the team.\nBeyond your product team, you'll be part of our wider Frontend Chapter, collaborating with frontend engineers across Product Engineering to share knowledge, improve standards and help evolve our frontend capability.\nOur tech stack is React, TypeScript, Redux, Redux-Sagas, RsBuild, MSW. 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