Frontend Engineer (Brain team)

Benifex Limited; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro

Annual learning budget £800

Flexible work – see UK HQ quarterly

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Your birthday off

Two half day wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7

Income Protection (75%)

Life assurance (4x salary)

Pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave

£50 monthly Benifex card

Job summary

Benifex Limited is seeking a Frontend Engineer to join Brain, our AI-powered flagship product. You’ll build frontend experiences for Reward Directors to compare benefits across markets.

You’ll collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers and UX Designers to translate ideas into accessible, high-quality experiences, and contribute to standards across the Frontend Chapter. Our stack includes React, TypeScript, Redux, and .NET services.

Qualifications

• Experience building frontend features in React and TypeScript.
• Strong collaboration with product/design teams.
• Experience with REST APIs and agile development.
• Proactive in UX/design input and QA/ accessibility practices.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building new frontend features in React, Redux ES6, HTML, CSS with responsive web design principles
• Experience working on software built on REST APIs
• Working closely with product and design to build slick, user-centric features
• Having input during the UX/design phase, the designers use XD and Figma
• Feeling comfortable taking frontend features from requirements to production
• Experience working within an Agile methodology
• Working in a shift-left manner with testing & quality, accessibility and security
• Taking ownership and accountability, bias to action
• Continual learning and applying new tools/technology

Skills

Frontend development

React

TypeScript

Redux

REST APIs

UX collaboration

Agile

Tools

React

TypeScript

Redux

Redux-Sagas

RsBuild

MSW

.NET

Job description

Who are Benifex?

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the UK. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Grow: 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

• A 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

• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards

• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

• 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

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position

Great benefits:

• £45,000 - £70,000
• Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)
• £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.
• Flexible 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
• 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays
• Your birthday off
• Two half day wellbeing days
• Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare
• Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
• Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• £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!

Role Overview

We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to join the team behind Brain, Benifex's flagship AI-powered product.

In 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.

You’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.

Beyond 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.

Our tech stack is React, TypeScript, Redux, Redux-Sagas, RsBuild, MSW. Our backend services are .NET.

Responsibilities

The focus for the next 12 months will be:

• Designing and building new frontend features in React, Redux ES6, HTML, CSS with responsive web design principles

• Experience working on software built on REST APIs

• Working closely with product and design to build slick, user-centric features

• Having input during the UX/design phase, the designers use XD and Figma

• Feeling comfortable taking frontend features from requirements to production

• Experience working within an Agile methodology

• Working in a shift-left manner with testing & quality, accessibility and security

General engineering traits that we look for:

• Taking ownership: A mindset of holding yourself and others accountable, someone who can be relied on in challenging situations, a bias to action.

• Passion for technology: Someone who invests in their craft and self learning, a continuous improvement mindset, a focus on best practices, and someone keen to see how new tools/technology can be applied to business problems.

• Open mindedness: Strong opinions loosely held, you're open to ideas, and seek feedback and input from others.

• Excellent communicator: An effective communicator to technical and non-technical audiences, able to break down complex information into simple to understand language.

• Natural problem solver: someone who thrives on solving technical challenges, who has a methodical way to work through problems and offer pragmatic solutions

Even 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.

Our interview process

Initial informal call with the Talent team

Interview with our Engineering Manager 30-45 min

Technical Interview - 60 min

Final interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.