Senior Software Engineer, Benepass
$195-215k
+ Equity
More information about location
Benefits administration platform
Open for applications
Benefits administration platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$195-215k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies distribute meaningful benefits that support the personal and professional well-being of their team.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full stack development
- Proven experience shaping product direction and technical approach from early idea to delivery
- Proficiency in Python/Django, PostgreSQL, and React/TypeScript
- Strong system design skills, including scalability, performance, and security considerations
- Experience working on high domain complexity systems such as financial ledgers, multi-system data syncs, rules/decisioning engines, or similarly complex architectures
- Comfortable with cloud-based environments (AWS preferred) and CI/CD workflows
- Demonstrated alignment with Benepassʼs engineering values and collaborative culture
- Passionate about leveraging AI as a force multiplier to deliver high-quality results with greater efficiency
What the job involves
- Benepass is scaling rapidly, and the complexity of our product surface demands senior engineers who can bridge product vision and technical execution
- This role exists to own the “zero-to-one” stage — shaping product approach in collaboration with PMs, Designers, and other engineers, defining the right technical strategy, and driving execution to delivery
- This Senior Software Engineer I will be an impact multiplier: leading architecture for initiatives, breaking down large ideas into clear technical approach documents and milestones, and mentoring other engineers while raising our technical bar
- While they will contribute across the stack, they will have a heavier focus on backend systems — including our ledger, syncs, decisioning engine, and rules engine — with the ability to dive into frontend (React, TypeScript) work when needed
- Partner early in product discovery with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to clarify goals, evaluate options, and recommend a technical approach
- Lead the creation of technical approach documents that define architecture, system interactions, trade-offs, and execution plans
- Guide teams through execution of agreed-upon approaches, ensuring work is delivered with high quality, precision, and in a timely manner
- Take ownership of backend-heavy initiatives (ledger, syncs, decisioning engine, rules engine) while contributing to frontend features when needed
- Bring forward strong architectural ideas, evaluate trade-offs, and influence system direction
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to mid-level and senior engineers
- Identify and drive improvements to system stability, performance, developer experience, and engineering practices
- Partners closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to translate ambiguous ideas into actionable, valuable solutions
- Shapes technical direction early in the discovery process, evaluating multiple approaches and trade-offs
- Regularly authors technical approach documents for complex initiatives, aligning architecture with business goals
- Ensures architecture decisions balance user needs, speed of delivery, and long-term maintainability
- Designs and implements well-structured, maintainable code in Python/Django and React with minimal guidance
- Builds robust APIs and UIs that meet scalability, performance, and security standards
- Experienced in high domain complexity systems — e.g., financial ledgers, multi-system data syncs, rules/decisioning engines — with the ability to identify edge cases and ensure correctness
- Uses appropriate design patterns and abstractions to reduce complexity without over-engineering
- Writes automated tests at the right level (unit, integration, E2E) and maintains high coverage
- Operates with a high degree of self-direction, moving projects forward without needing detailed instructions
- Anticipates edge cases and proactively addresses technical debt
- Unblocks themselves and others through research, experimentation, and creative solutions
- Champions improvements in product and engineering practices
- Facilitates cross-functional alignment during the design phase, ensuring engineering considerations are represented
- Reviews code for clarity, maintainability, and adherence to standards
- Mentors mid-level and senior engineers through pairing, feedback, and technical guidance
- Communicates progress, risks, and decisions clearly across teams
- Consistently delivers on time with work that meets defined acceptance criteria
- Improves team efficiency by suggesting and implementing process or tooling enhancements
- Identifies opportunities to improve system stability, performance, or developer experience
- Contributes to documentation and runbooks that support smooth onboarding and maintenance
Our take
The US labor market is creating higher demand for top tier talent, and many companies are looking to improve their benefits as a way of staying competitive. Strong health insurance and holiday policies, however, no longer cut it. Benepass is a benefits administration company looking to help companies stay ahead in this new landscape.
The basic Benepass premise is that pre- and post- tax benefits should be flexible and accessible for employees. As things stand, tax-advantage benefits are hugely under-leveraged by employees: they’re either unsuitable for individual employees, or are procedurally complicated or difficult to use. Benepass’ app centralises and simplifies the process, allowing employees to explore, track, and exercise benefits from a single platform and VISA card.
Building Benepass’ product around a card is a nice twist. Platforms like Zestful and Compt, who are similarly directed towards simplifying communication and education around employee benefits, don’t yet offer the same tangible feature. They’re also not as focused on the more complex area of tax-advantage benefits - which make substantial savings for employers as well as employees. Benepass’ solution is an easy win/win, and in today’s labor market conditions an increasingly necessary one.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2024
$20m
EARLY VC
Sep 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $34.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We pay $430 per month toward your health insurance and fully cover dental and vision. You also get membership to OneMedical, Teladoc and Talkspace
- Flexible, autonomous work: We’re remote first so live where you’re most happy. We come together in-person as a team 3-4 times per year
- Benepass perks: $500 to set up your home office, $100 per month for wellness, however you define it, $150 per month for home internet and cell phone, $150 per month for co-working
Company HQ
Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaclyn Chen
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously an Associate at Goldman Sachs, then TPG Capital, before moving on to work in Business Development at Teampay.
Mark Fischer
(Co-founder)An ex-Google Mechanical Engineer, who went on to hold a Senior Robotics Engineering role at X: The Moonshot Factory.
Kabir Soorya
(CTO & Co-Founder)An In-Q-Tel technologist who then worked on the Senior Technical Staff at Sidewalk Labs.
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