Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Benepass
Web, React Native Mobile
$170-200k
+ Equity
Benefits administration platform
Open for applications
Benefits administration platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$170-200k
+ Equity
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
- We're looking for a strong web engineer who has strong attention to detail, curiosity about increasing velocity and impact with AI without hindering quality, and is excited to extend their reach into mobile — comfort with (or curiosity for) React Native is a meaningful plus, and you'll have the support to grow those skills here. However, the team has two mobile engineers so deep expertise is not required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent building production web applications
- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript, including hooks, context providers, Suspense boundaries, and component composition patterns
- Experience shipping and maintaining production front-end systems through the full release lifecycle
- Strong system design instincts for front-end architecture, including state management, data fetching patterns, and navigation/routing
- Experience improving performance, reliability, and maintainability of user-facing systems, such as rendering performance, animation smoothness, and load/startup time
- Eagerness to learn across the stack and contribute to React Native mobile surfaces; prior React Native experience (or hands-on native experience in Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, or Java) is a strong plus but not required
- Experience working on high domain complexity systems such as financial services, secure payment flows, or similarly regulated environments
- Experience working within CI/CD pipelines and modern release workflows
- 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 through technical approach documents
- Ensures architecture decisions balance user needs, speed of delivery, and long-term maintainability
- Independently designs and implements performant, scalable front-end applications in React
- Comfortable leading projects that span multiple screens/views, navigation flows, shared components, and API integrations
- Understands web platform constraints — rendering performance, bundle size, accessibility, and browser compatibility
- Designs systems that are resilient under growth — increased users, offline scenarios, varying network conditions, and expanding feature complexity
- Proficient in debugging front-end issues including performance profiling, memory management, and platform-specific rendering differences
- Uses appropriate design patterns and abstractions to reduce complexity without over-engineering, with a focus on cross-platform code reuse where practical
- Writes automated tests at the right level (unit, integration, E2E) and maintains high coverage
- Drives initiatives with minimal oversight, breaking work into clear milestones
- Anticipates edge cases and production risks before they happen
- Ensures quality through testing strategy, thoughtful reviews, and strong acceptance criteria
- Balances delivery speed with long-term code health
- Improves engineering velocity by refining patterns, shared components, and tooling (CI/CD pipelines, build optimizations, developer experience) across web and mobile
- Contributes to documentation and runbooks that support smooth onboarding and maintenance
- Clearly communicates trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders
- Mentors mid-level engineers and provides structured, actionable feedback
- Raises concerns constructively and proposes concrete alternatives
- Communicates progress, risks, and decisions clearly across teams
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 Senior Frontend Engineer will be an impact multiplier: leading frontend architecture decisions, breaking down large initiatives into clear technical approach documents and milestones, and mentoring other engineers while raising our technical bar and using AI as a force multiplier while still being thoughtful about it’s output
- They will work primarily in React and TypeScript, building and maintaining our web application surfaces, and will have the opportunity to spread across the stack to contribute to our React Native mobile app on iOS and Android
- Lead the creation of technical approach documents that define architecture, system interactions, trade-offs, and execution plans
- Be a fluent adopter of AI tools, actively using AI coding assistants and emerging tooling to accelerate development, raise quality, and continuously rethink how engineering work gets done
- Partner early in product discovery with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to clarify goals, evaluate options, and recommend a technical approach
- Take ownership of front-end initiatives across web (component architecture, state strategy, performance considerations, help define API contracts)
- Spread across the stack to build and maintain features in our React Native mobile app, improving cross-platform consistency between React web and React Native mobile
- Strengthen testing practices and uphold security standards across web and mobile surfaces, including secure data handling, authentication flows, and sensitive financial information
- Contribute to release reliability across surfaces (build tooling, versioning, CI/CD, and—on mobile—TestFlight and store submission flows)
- Guide teams through execution of agreed-upon approaches, ensuring work is delivered with high quality, precision, and in a timely manner
- 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
- OUR TECHNOLOGY AND STACK:
- JavaScript/TypeScript, React, React Native, iOS Native (Swift/Objective-C bridging), Kotlin, Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes
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, because they are hard to use or unsuitable for individuals. Benepass’ app centralises and simplifies the process, allowing employees to explore, track, and exercise benefits from a single platform and VISA card.
Many platforms directed towards simplifying employee benefits don’t yet offer the same tangible features, and also don't focus on the more complex area of tax-advantage benefits. Therefore, Benepass’ solution is an easy win/win, which is why it has gained strong funding and attention. The latest influx fuels the expansion of its offerings, for example to support more specialized and cost-sensitive employer programs.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2026
$40m
SERIES B
Jan 2024
$20m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $74.4m
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
(Product & 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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