Senior Backend Engineer

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. 🚀

As a Software Developer in one of our platform-oriented teams, you'll work almost entirely on backend development (90%+), with

occasional, light frontend involvement.

The team owns the foundational components and services that the rest of the platform is built on, such as the core frameworks, the

user and company data domain, and the APIs and platform services that every other team depends on. Reliability, data integrity and

security are central to everything the team delivers.

This role is focused on turning business and architectural needs into well-built, maintainable systems: designing clean APIs,

evolving long-lived frameworks safely, and helping share knowledge across our internal developer community.

You'll also help shape our ways of working and technical direction. You'll join a focused team of engineers working alongside a

tech lead, a product manager and an engineering manager in Gothenburg.

We are also on a journey to use AI more deliberately in our daily engineering work. We are looking for someone who has practical

experience with AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows, or who wants to keep exploring how these tools can help us move faster,

improve quality, understand complex codebases, and reduce repetitive work without lowering our engineering standards.

• Treat non-functional qualities such as reliability, backward compatibility, data integrity, security and performance as high

priority.

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders, working with domain experts to keep solutions

aligned with the business.

• Help drive technical decisions, reduce technical debt, and document and share knowledge so critical areas aren't held by one

person.

• This includes reading unfamiliar code, understanding existing frameworks, and making careful, incremental changes rather than

rewriting from scratch.

• Practical experience in Domain-Driven Design, including working with domain experts to build well-aligned, maintainable

systems.

• A collaborative way of working. This means enjoying being in the office with the team as required, working through pair and mob

programming when it helps, communicating openly, and constructively challenging ideas.

• Microservices experience: Most of our work happens within an established platform and its shared frameworks, so we value the

judgement to know when a service boundary is worth drawing more than a long list of microservices built.

• AI-assisted development: We care more about a learning mindset and curiosity for using AI tools to work better than about

existing skillset.

• Cloud platforms: We're progressively moving towards GCP, we experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) is

preferred.

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.

Benifex understand the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible,

typically a 2-2.5 week timeframe.