As a Senior Front-End Engineer at Ben youll own the experience that hundreds of thousands of employees and HR teams interact with daily - benefits browsing cashback plan configurations the admin tools that make complex benefit administration feel simple.
Youll take features from design to production: collaborating with product and design to understand the problem figuring out the right approach building it shipping it.
Your work will involve contributing towards our component architecture styling standards tooling decisions and accessibility practices the goal being to deliver the best possible user experience for our customers!
Things youll be working on
Build and ship front-end features that solve real problems for HR teams and employees
Own the quality and consistency of our UI - component patterns styling guidelines
Collaborate with designers to turn ideas into polished accessible interfaces
Review our front-end code and shape how we build across the team
You will be involved in driving technical decisions about tooling patterns and architecture as our front-end evolves
Think about scalability - what happens when we have 10x the users 10x the complexity
Ensure security best practices are baked into everything we build
Youll thrive in this role if you...
Have deep experience building modern front-end applications with React and TypeScript
Care about craft - clean components consistent patterns thoughtful abstractions
Enjoy collaborating with designers and have opinions about what makes a great user experience
Are pragmatic: you know when to polish and when to ship
Have a strong ownership mindset and enjoy delivering projects end-to-end
Have excellent communication skills adaptable to both tech and business audiences
Nice-to-haves
Have worked on enterprise-scale products (B2B SaaS HR tech fintech)
Have driven work on accessibility standards and how to build inclusive interfaces
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 2 days per year. Also your annual holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days after your 3rd year of service!
Day off for your birthday
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
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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