Our Mission

Were not your average benefits platform; were the unordinary force that uplifts peoples 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: were 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 backend leaning Fullstack Engineer at Ben youll help build and scale the features that power our platform from benefits browsing and payments to provider integrations and smart admin tooling.

Youll take features from idea to production: understanding the problem scoping solutions building shipping and making sure what you deliver truly solves the need. You wont just be handed tickets youll contribute to shaping why we build things how we build them and what the future of our product looks like.

Youll collaborate across product design and engineering to make decisions that matter: data models integration patterns API design scalability choices and how we support a system used by hundreds of thousands of people. At Ben everything is connected so what you build helps power payroll workflows provider integrations notifications and everything in between.

And youll do all this as part of a fun fast-moving startup spending 2 days a week with the team in our Barbican office.

Things you will be working on

• Build and ship backend-leaning fullstack features across the product (APIs services integrations and some frontend too)

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

• Collaborate with designers to create polished intuitive experiences

• Contribute to technical discovery architecture thinking and implementation planning

• Ask product and UX questions when something doesnt quite add up

• Design with scale reliability and enterprise readiness in mind (security compliance flexibility)

• Own your work from idea to production and care about the impact once its live

• Help improve developer experience tooling and internal standards

• Ensure security best practices (OWASP AWS Well-Architected etc.) are embedded in how we ship software
  

You will thrive in this role if you

• Have strong experience building modern web apps especially backend systems

• Are comfortable in Python and TypeScript (or excited to learn quickly)

• Care about solving real user problems not just closing tasks

• Enjoy collaborating directly with PMs and designers without needing perfect specs

• Like figuring out the how with autonomy and the why with curiosity

• Know what it means to build for enterprise scale

• Are pragmatic able to balance scrappy shipping with thoughtful engineering

• Communicate clearly and enjoy working with friendly ambitious people
  

Nice-to-haves but not deal-breakers:

• Experience with financial platforms HR tech or B2B SaaS

• Experience building reliable workflows with tools like Temporal
  

You will not love this role if you

• Prefer a slow or highly predictable pace we move quickly and value action

• Feel uncomfortable owning projects end-to-end and being accountable for outcomes

• Prefer maintaining the status quo we challenge assumptions and improve constantly

• Want a heavily structured environment were still building processes as we grow

• Struggle with ambiguity or prefer prescriptive direction youll get context but youll need to figure things out

• Wait for others to take initiative this is a proactive high-performance team
  

Not sure if you meet 100% of the requirements

Thats okay careers arent linear. If you have a strong technical foundation solid backend experience and enthusiasm for fullstack engineering in a fast-moving startup wed love to hear from you. Just make sure you feel confident contributing meaningfully from day one.

Our Compensation & Benefits

Its 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.

Competitive base salary equity so you own what you build

100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you whether thats Netflix Spotify or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by 50 for each year of service until you reach 250

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 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!

Work-from-abroad scheme so you can support your travels enjoy an extended holiday or visit loved ones.

Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting

Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance

Funded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase - this also includes an annual health check

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

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 You can learn more about DEI at Ben here.