Backend Engineer; Java)

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.

• Growth: 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.

• Technology: 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.

• Team
  :
  Work with a talented, experience group of engineers dedicated to building high quality product for our users.

• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025

• Work for a profitable, fast-growing
  market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Ready to shape the core experience that connects everything our customers do across the Benifex platform?

We're looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to work on the services that contribute to the Core Experience for our customers and their employees. The team owns the entry point to our benefits product suite - Home, content creation, global navigation, search, translations.

You'll design and build robust, API-driven, event-oriented services that power a seamless, consistent experience across multiple products.

If you're passionate about clean APIs, data modelling, event-driven architecture, and setting architectural direction, this role puts you right at the heart of the platform.

Stack:
Java, Spring Boot, REST API's, MongoDB, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position

£45,

Tech setup of your choice (Mac Book 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!

Core Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality REST APIs and backend services using Java and Spring Boot.

• Implement and evolve event-driven workflows using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to synchronise profile data across multiple products.

• Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of the service (logging, metrics, tracing,…