Senior Backend Engineer

Benifex Nordics; Göteborgs kommun; Hybrid; SEK 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ITP1 pension

Lifeplan — pension advisory services

Collective agreement

Benefits portal access

Wellness allowance

30 vacation days per year

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental pay

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Benifex Nordics is seeking a Software Developer to strengthen our FPS Foundations team in Gothenburg. You will primarily work on backend services, APIs and shared frameworks, with occasional frontend involvement, shaping reliable, scalable systems.

Join a fast-moving technology leader delivering online reward and benefits to millions of users. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers and domain experts, driving technical decisions and adopting modern practices including AI-assisted

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Java, SQL and Spring / Spring Boot.
• Git and CI/CD pipelines experience.
• API design and development (REST / OpenAPI).
• Experience in evaluating trade-offs between solution design, quality and timeframes.
• Comfort working in large, established codebases.
• Practical experience in Domain-Driven Design, working with domain experts to build well-aligned, maintainable systems.
• A collaborative way of working, enjoying being in the office with the team as required, communicating openly, and constructively challenging ideas.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs and shared frameworks to a high standard.
• Evolve and progressively refactor a large, long‑lived codebase safely.
• Treat non‑functional qualities such as reliability, backward compatibility, data integrity, security and performance as high priority.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers and other stakeholders, working with domain experts to keep solutions aligned with the business.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold shared coding standards.
• Write automated integration and component tests.
• Help drive technical decisions, reduce technical debt and document and share knowledge so critical areas aren’t held by one person.
• Develop backend services and maintain high coding standards.
• Contribute to frontend changes using JavaScript and TypeScript when needed.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, UX designers and other stakeholders.
• Drive technical strategy, refactor legacy code and reduce technical debt.
• Engage in pair and mob programming sessions to solve complex problems together.

Skills

Java

SQL

Spring / Spring Boot

Git

CI/CD

API design

Domain-Driven Design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

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 world. 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?

• Impact: work on a product suite used by millions of people that improves employee experience and wellbeing.
• Scale: a big focus of our engineering teams is building features and services to support our customers globally.
• Autonomy: have an input into the product roadmap and technically lead features/services.
• Development: this is a crucial part of our aim to ensure a seamless experience across FPS.
• 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.

Great Benefits

• ITP1 pension.
• Lifeplan - a leading financial advisory service that offers personalized advice for maximizing your pension savings.
• Collective agreement.
• Access to our comprehensive benefits portal.
• Generous wellness allowance.
• 30 vacation days per year.
• Referral bonuses.
• Enhanced parental pay.
• Volunteer Days – two paid days annually to give back to the community.

Role Overview

As a Software Developer in our FPS Foundations team, you will work almost entirely on backend development (90%+), with occasional, light frontend involvement. The team owns the foundational components and services that the rest of the platform is built on, such as the core frameworks, the user and company data domain, and the APIs and platform services that every other team depends on. Reliability, data integrity and security are central to everything the team delivers.

This role focuses on turning business and architectural needs into well‑built, maintainable systems: designing clean APIs, evolving long‑lived frameworks safely, and sharing knowledge across our internal developer community. You will also help shape our ways of working and technical direction, working alongside a tech lead, a product manager and an engineering manager in Gothenburg. We are also on a journey to use AI more deliberately in our daily engineering work and want someone who has practical experience with AI‑assisted coding workflows or who wants to explore how these tools can help us move faster, improve quality and reduce repetitive work without lowering our engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs and shared frameworks to a high standard.
• Evolve and progressively refactor a large, long‑lived codebase safely.
• Treat non‑functional qualities such as reliability, backward compatibility, data integrity, security and performance as high priority.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers and other stakeholders, working with domain experts to keep solutions aligned with the business.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold shared coding standards.
• Write automated integration and component tests.
• Help drive technical decisions, reduce technical debt and document and share knowledge so critical areas aren’t held by one person.
• Develop backend services and maintain high coding standards.
• Contribute to frontend changes using JavaScript and TypeScript when needed.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, UX designers and other stakeholders.
• Drive technical strategy, refactor legacy code and reduce technical debt.
• Engage in pair and mob programming sessions to solve complex problems together.

What we’re looking for?

• Strong experience with Java, SQL and Spring / Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• API design and development (REST / OpenAPI).
• Experience in evaluating trade‑offs between solution design, quality and timeframes.
• Comfort working in large, established codebases.
• Practical experience in Domain‑Driven Design, working with domain experts to build well‑aligned, maintainable systems.
• A collaborative way of working, enjoying being in the office with the team as required, communicating openly, and constructively challenging ideas.

Important, but not essential

• Microservices experience – understanding when a service boundary is worth drawing.
• AI‑assisted development – a learning mindset and curiosity for using AI tools.
• Cloud platforms – preference for containerisation experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) and GCP knowledge.
• Asynchronous messaging, pub/sub and system integration patterns.
• Observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Grafana) and Hibernate.

Our recruitment process will begin in mid‑to‑late August, once the hiring team has returned from their summer holidays. We appreciate your patience and look forward to reviewing your application.

Our Interview Process

• Initial informal call with the Talent team.
• Interview with our Engineering Director (30‑45 min).
• Technical Task.
• 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 reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.