Fullstack Engineer, Ben

• Have strong experience building modern web apps, especially backend systems
• Are comfortable in Python and TypeScript (or excited to learn quickly)
• Care about solving real user problems, not just closing tasks
• Enjoy collaborating directly with PMs and designers without needing perfect specs
• Like figuring out the how with autonomy and the why with curiosity
• Know what it means to build for enterprise scale
• Are pragmatic able to balance scrappy shipping with thoughtful engineering
• Communicate clearly and enjoy working with friendly, ambitious people
• If you have a strong technical foundation, solid backend experience, and enthusiasm for fullstack engineering in a fast-moving startup, we’d love to hear from you. Just make sure you feel confident contributing meaningfully from day one

Desirable

• As a backend leaning Fullstack Engineer at Ben, you’ll help build and scale the features that power our platform from benefits browsing and payments to provider integrations and smart admin tooling
• You’ll take features from idea to production: understanding the problem, scoping solutions, building, shipping, and making sure what you deliver truly solves the need. You won’t just be handed tickets, you'll contribute to shaping why we build things, how we build them, and what the future of our product looks like
• You’ll collaborate across product, design, and engineering to make decisions that matter: data models, integration patterns, API design, scalability choices, and how we support a system used by hundreds of thousands of people. At Ben, everything is connected so what you build helps power payroll workflows, provider integrations, notifications, and everything in between
• And you’ll do all this as part of a fun, fast-moving startup, spending 2 days a week with the team in our Barbican office
• Build and ship backend-leaning fullstack features across the product (APIs, services, integrations, and some frontend too)
• Work closely with product managers to understand context and shape solutions early
• Collaborate with designers to create polished, intuitive experiences
• Contribute to technical discovery, architecture thinking, and implementation planning
• Ask product and UX questions when something doesn't quite add up
• Design with scale, reliability, and enterprise readiness in mind (security, compliance, flexibility)
• Own your work from idea to production and care about the impact once it’s live
• Help improve developer experience, tooling, and internal standards
• Ensure security best practices (OWASP, AWS Well-Architected, etc.) are embedded in how we ship software

• 1. Recruiter Screen - Intro call and conversation about your experience, motivation and skill set.
• 2. Hiring Manager Interview with our CTO, Robert - This will be made up of 2 aspects: Part 1: will seek to dive into your experience and motivations Part 2: this will be a code review session where we present you some code and ask you to talk us through your investigation and findings!
• 3. Technical task stage - comprising of a live code session and a system design interview. Please note: these are real world problems and we will never ask you to implement anything algorithmic, anything leetcode based, or ask you to invert a binary tree ;)
• 4. Values Interview - meet the founders and an interview that seeks to dive into your alignment with our company culture. Our values are: Drivers, Not Passengers (we have small teams with a lot of ambiguity - we would love to work with people comfortable driving projects forward and those that love taking initiative). Be Ridiculously bold (we always look to push the boundaries for what we can build, and want to work with likeminded individuals that strive to innovate and make improvements where identified). We Give a Ben (we care!). Open Minds Win (everyone has a voice, we believe there's a healthy tension between teams and encourage discourse to build the best product possible)