Engineering Lead, Ben
2-5 days a week in office
We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives.
Job no longer available
We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives.
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
2-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
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.
Role
Who you are
- Strong commercial experience working with Python and Django
- Deep architectural & design pattern experience; drive the design & planning, collaborate with teammates, and set up new projects to ensure architectural success
- Applied information security in building secure web applications and infrastructure configurations
- Understand and appreciate the principles and practices of agile and lean ways of working, but with a pragmatic edge
- Excellent communication skills adaptable to both tech and business audiences
- Experience in working with AWS services such as EC2, SES, S3 etc
- Are a self-starter who thrives on autonomy, enjoys a rapid pace and wants to make a difference
- Have a continuous improvement mindset. You appreciate that there are always ways to do things better and ensure your team does too
- Have a preference to action-oriented behaviour with just enough analysis, as compared to too much time spent doing analysis with no action
- Have the ability to make decisions balancing different factors such as business requirements, technical integrity, overall priorities etc
- Appreciate the opportunities and challenges of a distributed work environment
- Are solution-focused with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving
What the job involves
- You will challenge the complexity in the employee benefit domain and constantly deliver value (benefit!) to our users by building reliable and scalable software
- . You will also be expected to show some leadership skills to positively impact team productivity as a senior member of the engineering team
- Design, implement and deliver software features with full ownership, using your technical expertise
- Implement payment card APIs and payment transaction handlers
- Integrate with HRIS (Human Resources Information System) and our benefit supplier partners
- Take ownership of our employee benefits management platform and ensure their reliability
- Lead and deliver your implementations from start to finish, including deployment of new services by expanding our application infrastructure within AWS
- Drive initiatives across squads to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issue
- Collaborate with product stakeholders and other members of the team to scope and estimate optimal solutions for business problems
- Ensure that security considerations are taken into account, based on current best practices (e.g. OWASP Top 10, AWS Well-Architected Framework) in all software development and infrastructure projects
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
The way companies reward their employees today is often a one-size-fits-all model that hasn't evolved to meet the demands of the modern workforce.
Businesses wanting to attract top talent frequently look for ways to win over candidates with additional work perks like free lunches, healthcare and discounts. However, this benefits infrastructure is inflexible and so Ben wants to become this infrastructure.
By issuing prepaid payment cards to each team member, Ben allows employees to choose how they want to be rewarded. This unlocks benefits that people actually want while reducing the amount of admin. It is also working to become a Ben is looking to solve a problem the problem of benefit flexibility. Benefits aren't flexible, but why? We argue it's because the infrastructure itself isn't flexible and therefore, we have the ambitious goal which is to essentially become the financial infrastructure of employee benefits. Prepayments cards are part of the proposition to enable benefit flexibility, but they alone don't solve the problem. We therefore need to be more than a SaaS platform. We need to be a data company, a marketplace and so much more to make this happen!
It's this handing over of autonomy which differentiates them from others in the space. By putting the decision making in the hands of employees, it will allow companies to see how their workforce wants to be rewarded and extract meaningful insight through detailed spend analytics with zero hassle.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
106% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Open and honest communication
"At Ben we pride ourselves on being able to have open and honest dialogs with our colleagues and leaders. We have weekly 121 meetings with our line..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$2.2m
SEED
Total funding: $19.3m
Company benefits
- 💳 £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
- 🔋 £500 annual Learning & Personal Development Ben Balance: plus 3 days paid study leave a year to support you with your professional development
- 👩🏽💻 £500 work from home set up allowance, which you can put towards your home office
- 🏖 28 days of holidays a year + 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!
- 🧠 Comprehensive and tailored mental health support through a leading provider
- 🍿 Team activities: we have quarterly team social budgets to support spending time together and we frequently organise company wide events
- Eyecare vouchers
- DNA Profiling & Epigenetic Testing
- Work-from-anywhere scheme: you have the option to work from anywhere for up to 3 weeks 2x a year
- Assisted Reproduction paid leave & support
- 🍔 Weekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food!
- 🍼 Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting
- 💪 Access to a Classpass membership!
- ❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance, Healthcare Cash Plan & discounted cancer screening
- Cycle-to-work & electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
- Life Insurance
- Season ticket loans
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Founders
Sebastian Fallert
(CEO)Previously the MD of Secret Escapes (UK & Germany)
David Duckworth
(COO)Worked in consulting and venture capitalism, and founded the SaaS marketplace Mixer.
Diversity & Inclusion at Ben
Alicia Riley (Senior People Lead)
- 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.
- We provide comprehensive mental health support for all employees
- We provide enhanced parental leave policies and salary-sacrifice nursery schemes to help parents & carers
- We offer individuals the ability to swap bank holidays for days of celebration that are important to them
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