Backend engineer for employee benefits

Benifex; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 дней отпуска + праздничные дни

День рождения выходной

Здоровье: план медицинского страхового

Поддержка сотрудников 24/7

Страхование жизни 4x зарплата

Пенсионная схема

Обновленный пакет на развитие навыков

Кошелёк Benifex 50£/мес

Learning бюджет £800/год

Focus Fridays 2 часа в неделю

Гибкая работа по месту

Job summary

Benifex Limited ищет инженера бэкэнда с опытом GenAI для разработки и поддержки нашего AI продукта Brain. Вы будете проектировать функции, писать чистый код и сотрудничать с командами разработки и дизайна, включая удалённые коллеги.

Ожидается опыт работы с Python, SQL и современными практиками безопасности и производительности. Кандидат будет участвовать во внедрении AI-обучения и архитектурных подходах, таких как оркестрация агентов и микросервисы, в гибком рабочем окружении в рамках UK/IE

Qualifications

• 6+ месяцев коммерческого GenAI опыта с MCP и оркестрацией агентов
• Адвокат AI безопасности и ответственного AI
• Опыт доставки фич end-to-end без постоянного руководства
• Бэкэнд на Python, уверенность в SQL
• Опыт с контейнеризацией и CI/CD
• Знакомство с микросервисами и событийно-ориентированными архитектурами

Responsibilities

• Проектировать и реализовывать фичи для продукта Brain
• Обеспечивать качество кода и проводить тесты
• Поддерживать устойчивость систем, улучшать observability
• Работать с кросс-функциональными и удалёнными командами
• Участвовать во внедрении AI-оптимизированных практик в SDLC

Skills

GenAI опыт

Python

.NET

SQL

AI безопасность

наблюдаемость

CI/CD

контейнеризация

оркестрация агентов

архитектура микроуслуг

Tools

Langfuse

Grafana

Job description

Описание:

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.

Задачи:

Design and build features for our flagship AI product, Brain - where Reward Directors can speak to and access a wealth of industry knowledge on what benefits are most suitable for their employee population you'll use your background as a Python / .NET engineer to understand our Benefits product and APIs Take ownership of the quality of what you ship, testing your own work, fixing defects, learning from them, and improving how the team works. Write clear, well-structured code that follows our conventions, and give clear, actionable feedback on pull requests. Improve the quality and maintainability of the code you touch, applying good practice around accessibility, performance and security. Contribute to the stability of our systems. Strengthening alerts and runbooks, improving observability, and helping resolve production issues and incidents alongside a senior engineer. Work with Product, Design and Engineering colleagues to make sure what you build lands the right outcome, and proactively share progress. Work effectively with remote teams, including engineers from Java Spring Boot backgrounds, to deliver cohesive solutions. Support the onboarding of new engineers. Use and help evolve our AI assisted development practices as part of Benifex's AI first SDLC.

Требования:

Commercial production GenAI experience (6 months+) including experience using MCP, orchestrating multiple agents, RAG based solutions, evals and agentic observability (Langfuse). An advocate for AI security and responsible AI A track record of delivering features end-to-end, You make steady progress without needing constant direction, unblock yourself where you can, and know when to ask for help. Solid commercial experience in backend development with Python and confidence working with SQL. Good instincts for clean, maintainable code and awareness of non-functional concerns like performance, security and testability. Comfortable debugging and diagnosing issues in a running system, and interested in understanding how things behave in production. Exposure to containerisation and CI/CD pipelines, you don't need to have owned them, but you should be able to work within them and want to go deeper. Awareness of modern architectural patterns such as agentic orchestration, microservices and event-driven systems. Collaboration: you communicate openly, work well with cross-functional and remote colleagues, and bring clarity through documentation and proposals. Problem-solving: a resourceful approach to complex challenges, and the persistence to work through ambiguity. AI Assisted Development: practical, hands-on experience working with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, etc.) as part of your development workflow. AI Native Mindset: genuine interest in AI Native engineering practices, and a desire to help shape how a team works with AI rather than just consume it.

Будет плюсом:

• Working with A2A integrations
• Experience with messaging systems like Google Pub/Sub and caching solutions like Redis
• Cloud experience, particularly deploying and scaling applications (GCP especially welcome)
• Familiarity with observability tools for monitoring, logging and alerting (e.g. Langfuse, Grafana)
• Mentoring or supporting more junior engineers

Условия:

• 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
• 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!