FrontEnd Engineer, Ben
Mobile and Web
£60-75k
+ Equity
We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives.
Open for applications
We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives.
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£60-75k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a world where everything operates at its very best by changing the role of work from maintaining livelihoods to shaping lives.
Role
Who you are
- Have solid experience building and shipping mobile applications using React Native
- Native mobile development experience (Swift/Objective-C or Kotlin/Java)
- Are familiar with the Expo ecosystem, including using EAS to build and submit apps
- Care about solving real user problems, not just closing tickets
- Can collaborate with PMs and designers without waiting to be told every detail
- Enjoy figuring out the how with autonomy, and the why with curiosity
- Are pragmatic: you know when to ship fast and when to invest in quality
- Communicate clearly and enjoy working with friendly & ambitious people
What the job involves
- As a FrontEnd Engineer at Ben, your mission is to solve real problems for the people using Ben by creating polished, intuitive, and reliable experiences on both our mobile and web platforms. You'll focus on what happens when someone taps a button, how our app feels to use, and how we deliver a seamless experience across all devices
- Build features that matter: You'll work on the core of the Ben user experience for our mobile apps and contribute to our web platform. Scope it, build it, ship it. You're involved from "here's the problem" through to "it's live and people are using it."
- Have a real say in what we build: PMs don't have a monopoly on good ideas. You'll help shape the user experience, suggest improvements, and push back when something feels off from a user's perspective
- Make technical decisions: How should this component be built to work on both iOS and Android? What's the right way to manage state for this new feature? How do we ensure our app is performant and responsive? You'll tackle these questions and help set the standard for our mobile and frontend development
- Think about the whole picture: Our mobile and web experiences are deeply connected. When you build a feature, you'll think about how it fits into the entire user journey. How do we ensure consistency between mobile and web? How does this new mobile feature interact with our existing platform?
- Build and ship product features for our iOS and Android applications using React Native and Expo
- Work closely with product managers to understand user context and shape mobile-first solutions
- Collaborate with designers to deliver polished, intuitive, and delightful user experiences
- Manage and improve our build and deployment processes using Expo Application Services (EAS)
- Contribute to our web frontend application using React, helping us maintain a consistent experience across platforms
- Own work from idea to the App Store/Play Store and care about the impact once it’s live
- Improve developer experience, tooling, and standards within our mobile and frontend teams
- Ensure that security considerations are taken into account, based on current industry-accepted practices
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 23 January 2026 at 00:00 GMT
Our take
The way companies reward their employees today is often a one-size-fits-all model that hasn't evolved to meet the demands of the modern workforce.
Businesses wanting to attract top talent frequently look for ways to win over candidates with additional work perks like free lunches, healthcare and discounts. However, this benefits infrastructure is inflexible and so Ben wants to become this infrastructure.
By issuing prepaid payment cards to each team member, Ben allows employees to choose how they want to be rewarded. This unlocks benefits that people actually want while reducing the amount of admin. Ben is looking to solve the problem of benefit flexibility.
It's this handing over of autonomy that differentiates Ben from others in the space. By putting the decision-making in the hands of employees, it will allow companies to see how their workforce wants to be rewarded and extract meaningful insight through detailed spend analytics with zero hassle.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
25 people
Rhianna, Senior Front-end Engineer
Insights
32% female employees
106% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.8)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2025
$27.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2022
$18.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48.6m
Company benefits
- 💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Allowance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee. This allowance will increase by £50 for each year of service until you reach £250
- 🔋 £500 annual Learning & Personal Development Ben Balance: plus 3 days paid study leave a year to support you with your professional development
- 👩🏽💻 £500 work from home set up allowance, which you can put towards your home office
- 🏖 28 days of holidays a year + bank holidays
- 🧠 Comprehensive and tailored wellbeing support through a leading provider
- 🍿 Team activities to support spending time together and we frequently organise company wide events
- 🌎 Work-from-anywhere scheme
- 🍔 Weekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food
- 🍼 Enhanced parental leave, workplace nursery scheme, and assisted reproduction paid leave & support
- 💪 Access to a Classpass membership!
- ❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance, Healthcare Cash Plan & discounted cancer screening
- 🚲 Cycle-to-work & electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
- 🏥 Life insurance
Company values
- Drivers not passengers
- Ridiculously bold
- Give a Ben
- Open minds win
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
Leadership
Sebastian Fallert
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the MD of Secret Escapes (UK & Germany).
David Duckworth
(Co-Founder & COO)Worked in consulting and venture capitalism, and founded the SaaS marketplace Mixer.
People breakdown
11%
4%
4%
3%
57%
7%
14%
Asian
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino
Multiracial / Multiethnic
White
Other
Unknown
Last updated on 04 December 2024
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ben
Alicia Riley (Head of People)
- Here at Ben we’re committed to fostering and nurturing a culture that supports and actively encourages diversity, equity and inclusion. This should go without saying but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application, just let us know.
- We use structured interviews and scorecards to ensure that all candidates are assessed fairly using objective criteria and to mitigate against bias.
- We advertise on a variety of job boards and platforms, including ones committed to promoting diversity in tech and that enable diversity sourcing.
- We share our process in advance through our open-source interview guide, including proactively asking for accessibility and inclusion requirements.
- We actively encourage open feedback, discussions, and cross team collaboration, so that all voices are heard and listened to.
- We measure the diversity of both our candidates and our workforce, so that we can hold ourselves to account and make sure we’re building a representative culture as we grow.
- We support initiatives in our product that promote digital accessibility.
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