Senior Frontend Engineer in Southampton

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?

• Tech: You'll be working with and responsible for a modern tech stack that is continuously evolving.
• AI: Benifex is massively pushing the AI narrative and you'll have full access to a suite of cutting‑edge AI tools.
• Team: Join a collaborative, product‑led team dedicated to building a benefits platform that is used by over 5 million employees worldwide.

Great benefits:

• £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)
• 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

You'll be joining our brand new Admin team within the Engineering department, building a single Unified Admin experience to combine our admin interfaces across platforms. Customers with multiple locations globally currently use different set ups for each location and this brand new team is tasked with ending that and building the kind of experience befitting the global organisations we support. You'll work closely with your peers in a cross‑functional team, with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and UX team to translate designs seamlessly into frontend components, thinking about accessibility, usability and implementation. The team owns the frontend decisions and you will have plenty of opportunity to contribute to them. You'll also have a wider role within the Frontend Chapter to collaborate with the other frontend engineers across Product Engineering. Our tech stack includes React, TypeScript, Redux, Redux‑Sagas, RsBuild, MSW. Our backend services are .NET.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building new frontend features in React, Redux ES6, HTML, CSS with responsive web design principles
• Experience working on software built on REST APIs
• Working closely with product and design to build slick, user‑centric features
• Having input during the UX/design phase, the designers use XD and Figma
• Feeling comfortable taking frontend features from requirements to production
• Experience working within an Agile methodology
• Working in a shift‑left manner with testing, quality, accessibility and security

What we’re looking for:

• Taking ownership: A mindset of holding yourself and others accountable, someone who can be relied on in challenging situations, a bias to action.
• Passion for technology: Someone who invests in their craft and self‑learning, a continuous improvement mindset, a focus on best practices, and someone keen to see how new tools/technology can be applied to business problems.
• Open mindedness: Strong opinions loosely held, you’re open to ideas, and seek feedback and input from others.
• Excellent communicator: An effective communicator to technical and non‑technical audiences, able to break down complex information into simple to understand language.
• Natural problem solver: someone who thrives on solving technical challenges, who has a methodical way to work through problems and offer pragmatic solutions.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.