Backend Engineer (.NET & Python)

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

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. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

- 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

What are we looking for? 🔎

🌟 Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

✈️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

🏖️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

💳 £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!

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow.

Our interview process

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

⏳ Interview with our Engineering Manager 30-45 min

🔎 Technical Interview - 60 min

🤩 Final interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.

💰 £70,000 - £90,000

💻 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 month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

💸 Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

✈️ 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)

We are looking for a Software Engineer with strong .NET and Python expertise and hands-on GenAI experience to help build and evolve Brain, Benifex's flagship AI platform. In this role, you will design, develop and deliver high-quality backend solutions that combine modern AI technologies with our established benefits platform. You will work closely with Product, Design and Engineering colleagues in a collaborative, distributed environment while contributing to our AI-first software development lifecycle. This is an opportunity to take ownership of impactful features, strengthen platform reliability and help shape the future of AI-native engineering at Benifex.