Job Specifications
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 world. 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?
Challenge: exciting opportunity to drive the evolution of a key product by implementing cutting-edge technology, refining technical best practices, and fostering collaboration across global teams
Impact: you'll be working across a number of teams delivering real impact, focusing on proactively identifying issues and leaving each team in a better position than you found it!
Ownership: you will be our technical .Net expert within the business and act as a point of technical expertise on a number of different business-critical projects
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
**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**
Great Benefits
£85,000-110,000
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)
Referral bonuses
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!
Role Overview
We're hiring for a Staff Engineer with a focus on .NET to help drive improvements across a number of teams focused on our Benefits platform. You'll be focusing on driving procedural and technical improvements proactively, with a focus on leaving each team in a better position than you found it.
This is a crucial role in continually improving our product offering and you'll be driving those improvements through your technical expertise, stakeholder management, and broader product knowledge.
Responsibilities
Work with the Architect to define, own and evolve the long term technical vision and architectural roadmap core Benefits product platform, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy and engineering excellence goals.
Act as the primary technical authority and deep subject matter expert for C#.NET, .NET Core, and cloud-native solutions, resolving the most complex architectural and performance challenges.
Lead the modernisation strategy from existing systems to a robust, scalable cloud-native architecture utilizing Kubernetes/GKE and Google Pub/Sub, setting the standard for implementation across engineering teams.
Work across the Benefits teams and workstreams to lead the design and hands-on development of complex, highly-available, and scalable backend solutions for our Benefits product using C#.NET and .NET Core.
Design and champion the end-to-end CI/CD and deployment strategy, focusing on advanced techniques for canary deployments, blue/green strategies, and automated reliability testing.
Proactively collaborate with Principal/Staff Engineers and Product Leadership across the organization to resolve technical trade-offs, align dependencies, and drive strategic initiatives that span multiple engineering teams.
Provide deep technical mentorship and coaching to Senior and mid-level engineers, elevating the overall technical capabilities and domain knowledge of the department.
Partner with engineers from diverse backgrounds (e.g., Java Spring Boot teams) to design robust integration contracts and spearhead knowledge transfer to build a cohesive, unified engineering culture.
Tech stack: .NET, SQL, GCP, MSMQ (moving to Google Pub/Sub), Kubernetes.
What are we looking for?
10+ years of progressive experience in backend development, with extensive, expert-level proficiency in C#.NET and .NET Core, designing and implementing systems at scale.
Exceptional technical leadership skills w
About the Company
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.
Benifex has won over 120 awards. Change-makers like Baker Hughes, Bank of America, Boston Consulting Group, BT, Diageo, EDF, Exxon, IKEA, Lloyds Banking Group, Medtronic, Microsoft, Salesforce, Sony and Volvo choose Benifex to help them create remarkable experiences that are as individual as the people they employ.
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