Engineering Manager

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? 🌟 -Lead two high-impact engineering teams working on the core of our platform, where your work directly influence product delivery and customer value. -Join a collaborative software engineering community across the Nordics and UK, where you’ll shape ways of working and drive continuous improvement together. -Be empowered to take ownership - this is a role for someone who thrives on autonomy, proactivity, and making tangible improvements. -Work with experienced, high-performing engineers in a complex product environment that offers both technical and organisational challenges. -Play a key role in driving adoption of modern practices including AI-enabled ways of working and scalable engineering processes. -Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and employee benefits space. GREAT BENEFITS: 🧠 ITP1 pension.  ❤️ Lifeplan - a leading financial advisory service that offers personalized advice for maximizing your pension savings. 📝 Collective agreement. 💸 Access to our comprehensive benefits portal.  🤸 Generous wellness allowance. ✈️ 30 vacation days / year. 💰 Referral bonuses. 🌟 Enhanced parental pay. 🙂 Volunteer Days – two paid days annually to give back to the community. ROLE OVERVIEW 🚀 As an Engineering Manager at Benifex, you will lead two software engineering teams of five engineers each, responsible for critical parts of our platform. One team is based in Gothenburg, where you will have full people management responsibility, while the other is a nearshore team in Poland where you will own delivery and performance. You will drive delivery, coach teams to improve performance, and ensure smooth collaboration across this distributed setup. This is a senior leadership role with a strong focus on people, delivery, and continuous improvement. Success in this role means proactively identifying opportunities, removing bottlenecks, and enabling your teams to consistently perform at their best. RESPONSIBILITIES 🤘 -Lead and develop two engineering teams, ensuring strong delivery performance, clear accountability, and continuous improvement across teams. -Act as first escalation point for engineers, guiding work, estimations, removing blockers, and supporting day-to-day delivery. -Own delivery outcomes across teams, tracking progress, velocity, and ensuring commitments against roadmap and goals are met. -Partner closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to align on roadmap, priorities, and execution. -Coach engineers and tech leads, providing feedback, supporting growth, and strengthening overall team capability. -Drive agile ways of working, ensuring effective ceremonies, strong execution, and continuous improvement while balancing team autonomy. -Standardise and evolve engineering practices and processes (e.g. code quality, ways of working) together with other Engineering Managers. -Facilitate collaboration across distributed teams, including nearshore delivery responsibility, and reduce dependency on key individuals through knowledge sharing. -Use OKRs, metrics, and delivery tracking to measure quality, performance, and progress. -Champion adoption of AI and modern tooling to improve engineering efficiency and effectiveness. -Recognise achievements and milestones to build engagement, morale, and a strong team culture. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 🔎 -Proven experience as an Engineering Manager with strong leadership seniority and a track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams. -Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, feedback, and the ability to build trust and motivation in teams. -Experience leading engineering teams with a focus on delivery, continuous improvement, and measurable results. -Strong technical understanding, ideally from a software engineering background, with ability to translate product requirements into team plans, capacity, and execution. -Solid understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), including sprint planning, estimation, task breakdown, and iterative delivery. -Ability to drive engineering quality, including high coding standards, maintainability, testing practices, and prevention of technical debt. -Collaborative and empathetic leadership style with strong communication skills and ability to work closely with engineers, tech leads, product managers, and other stakeholders. -Strong interest in modern engineering practices, including Generative AI (Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, RAG) and adoption of AI/tools to improve efficiency. -Passion for product and quality, with a focus on both why we build (user value) and how we build (engineering standards and excellence). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: Our recruitment process will begin in mid-to-late August, once the hiring team has returned from their summer holidays. We appreciate your patience and look forward to reviewing your application. We look forward to receiving and reading your application!

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? 🌟 * People: play a pivotal role in nurturing and upskilling our talented engineers * Impact: help us build a world class engineering culture and organisation where engineers can thrive and we build exceptional products * Variety: a role that has a wide reaching level of influence across engineering culture, delivery, people, process and technology * Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025 * Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space Role Overview 🚀 On our mission to power how the world delivers exceptional employee experience, Benifex is investing heavily in our Product Engineering organisation, and reshaping how our Engineering Managers operate as we move toward smaller, pod-based AI-native engineering teams. This is a pioneering role: you'll help define what AI-native engineering leadership looks like at Benifex, at a time when very few organisations have real-world experience to draw on. The BEMEX team owns the employee facing Benefits experience, where our customer's employees can see which benefits they currently have, which ones they are eligible for and can sign up for new benefits in the Benefits Shop. The team is mid way through a large refresh of the design and UX, and so there is plenty of opportunity to have a very positive impact - 8 million people will see this team's work when they log into our benefits platform! The TRS (Total Reward Statement) and Pay Transparency team builds the applications that help employees understand their total compensation package, and information on where their salary sits relative to industry benchmarks. Both teams have a hugely positive impact on our customers' employee retention and engagement. **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: 💰 £80,000-120,000 💻 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 quarter in our UK HQ ✈️ 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) 🤑 Pension scheme 🌟 Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave 💳 £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! Responsibilities 🤘 * Directly manages engineers across engineering pods, guides work and estimations, and removes blockers, both delivery and technical. You are the first escalation point. * Actively involved in the technical work of the team, comfortable using AI-assisted and agentic development tools directly, not solely directing through meetings and reviews. * Builds and works hands-on with AI skills and agents alongside the team, helping shape how AI-native ways of working take root day-to-day through the SDLC. * Works closely with Product Managers and tech leads to provide guidance and coaching on technical contribution and the product roadmap. * Provides feedback and helps engineers grow their skills. Ensures adherence to development methodologies. * Standardises core processes (e.g. agile ceremonies, code quality standards) while giving pods real autonomy for effective delivery. * Owns specific, delivery and quality metrics for their pods. Able to show baseline, target, and result, not just a framework. * Aligns teams to company objectives through transparent, measurable OKRs. * Proactively tracks engineer well-being, spots burnout, and suggests solutions; reports up to address systemic issues. * Recognises milestones and individual contributions to build morale and engagement. What are we looking for? 🔎 * Background in world-class product/tech organisations (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Uber, Booking.com) or high-growth startups (e.g. Monzo, N26, Personio), ideally including experience operating in AI first pod-style team structures. * Demonstrable, evidenced ability building and leading high-calibre engineering teams. * A genuine change leader, comfortable guiding a team through real ambiguity and transformation, both the AI-driven shift and the organisational change that comes with a quickly accelerating, scaling business. * Evidenced experience leading engineering teams through AI-assisted or agentic development adoption. * Comfortable being hands-on with modern AI tooling yourself, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, or building/configuring agents and skills. * A track record of owning and improving specific engineering KPIs. * Genuine appetite to be a pioneer in engineering leadership, excited to help define this way of working, not just adopt existing playbooks. Competencies: * Understanding Technical Requirements with a Focus on Quality: Translate product requirements into squad plans and capacity, while also having a keen eye for ensuring high coding standards, maintainability, and the prevention of technical debt. * People Management: Ability to motivate, provide constructive feedback, manage performance, and resolve interpersonal conflicts within a team. * Agile Expertise: Experience implementing and iterating on Agile processes (like Scrum or Kanban) including task breakdown, estimation, and sprint planning. * Collaborative and Empathetic: Possesses strong communication skills and builds positive relationships with engineers, focusing on understanding their motivations and work styles. * Quality Champion: Intrinsically motivated to produce high-quality code and instills a focus on maintainability, testing, and code standards within the team. * Results-Driven and Process-Oriented: Able to balance adherence to Agile methodologies and delivery timelines with a focus on continuous improvement. Familiar with using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to set measurable goals. * Passion for Product - You care about WHY we are building product and the value it brings to users and HOW we build product in terms of quality and standards. 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. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you. Our interview process ✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible. 📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team ⏳ Interview with our Engineering Director - 30 min 🔎 Presentation - 60 min 🤩 Final interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min 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.