Benifex
Engineering Manager
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Who We Are at Benifex
💚💜 We are a fast-moving technology company, one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions globally. Our mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love, ensuring everyone enjoys an exceptional experience at work every day. Today, we support over five million employees across 3,000+ organisations in over 100 countries.
We’re on a quest to be the best, and we’re looking for brilliant people to help us achieve this goal. If you’re passionate about driving impact and want to shape the future of work, you’re in the right place.
Why Apply to Benifex? 🌟
- People-focused: We invest in nurturing and upskilling our engineering talent.
- High-impact role: Help build a world-class engineering culture and deliver exceptional products.
- Variety: A role with broad influence across engineering, culture, delivery, people, process, and technology.
- Recognition: Ranked as a Top 10 Employer (Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards) and a 2025 Best Large Tech Company to Work For.
- Growth: Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in online rewards and benefits.
Role Overview: Engineering Manager (Benefits)
Location: Based in the UK or Ireland (visa sponsorship unavailable)
On our mission to power exceptional employee experiences, we’re scaling our Product & Engineering teams globally. We’re expanding squads and leadership roles to accelerate growth.
This Engineering Manager role replaces a recently promoted Manager and will lead multiple squads of software engineers, primarily in .Net, to execute development roadmaps, prioritise high-quality delivery, and mentor talent.
Key Responsibilities 🚀
Leadership & Strategy
- Directly manage engineers, provide guidance on work estimations, roadmapping, and remove blockers as the first escalation point.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to align development execution with product roadmaps.
- Coach high-calibre engineers, especially in areas like Generative AI (Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning, RAG).
- Coordinate frameworks (Agile/Squad alignment, ceremonies) while empowering teams with autonomy.
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Delivery & Processes
- Build high-quality standards, mitigate technical debt, and drive best practices across the squad.
- Track velocity & health of the squad (code quality, testing, review processes, shutting down unmaintained features).
- Own Roadmap & Sprint delivery: Assess complexity, deliver to plan, and enhance team predictability.
- Metrics-based leadership: Use data to drive agile improvements (code coverage, release quality, deployment frequency).
People Growth & Well-Being
- IPM (Individual Professional Mentor): Foster career growth by helping engineers advance their technical and soft skills.
- Prioritise engineer joy & engagement while safely addressing risks like burnout.
- Recognise achievements and uilitise tools (e.g., crush feedback systems) to enhance manager-squad communication.
Core Competencies
Technical Leadership
- Experience in leading engineers at scale (e.g., Google’s 27Engineering model) or similar high-growth teams.
- Expertise in managing large technical projects (eye-watering scale, 7-figure++ budgets) while maintaining quality.
- Strong architectural alignment with pricing, technology, and operational constraints.
People Growth
- Directly interesting with people development and inner levels (delighting employees for recruitment retention).
- Hiring and transitioning two-year contracts with regular feedback.
Beyond Code
- Alignment on ‘WHY we build products’ and their user value.
- Motivate teams with a focus on users and people.
- Experience with OKRs and PDAs (Professional Development Assessments).
Required Skills & Experience
- Scaled, complex systems: Prior success in high-volume environments, ML/AI teams, large-volume data pipelines, or distributed architectures.
- Team leadership: Experience building engineering excellence (e.g., people who have led cultures rather than architectures) in. parties, cubes, startups, or large software organisations.
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Location & Expectations
Location: UK or Ireland. Working Model: Highly flexible, with no strict policy — as long as you join two monthly HQ syncs remotely.
(Disclaimers: We cannot offer visa sponsorship)
Our Benefits & Perks
We reward our brilliant engineers with a killer benefits package, including:
- £80,000 – £120,000 (depending on experience and role).
- Tech setup of your choice: MacBook Pro + peripherals, e.g., at least two monitors.
- £/€800 annual learning budget, plus additional at least 2 hours per week for ‘Focus Fridays’ (withovie and proud). Our Data Scientists also benefit from Machine Learning scholarships and AI study groups.
- Flexible work: Choose any setup. Performant employees are rare in tech — Benifex gets them.
- 25+ days holiday + local bank holidays (plus 2 days discounted).
- Twice-half-day wellbeing allowance.
- Healthcare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Plan, Disability Confident schemes, plus income protection via AXA.
- Paternity-Leave plus Maternity (26 weeks fully paid/30 HQ) + unaligned children allocations for team-building.
- Shopping card: £50 monthly spend allowance.
- COVID-19 support: Home office-planning subsidy.
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Privately: This is only one role. Check onther roles for opportunities across our global organisation.
Application Process
We’re swift — here’s whats expected:
- Informal 15-min call with our Talent Team.
- 30-minute meeting with Engineering Director.
- 60-minute design/technical presentation – think whiteboard and live coding.
- VP Engineering interview — 30-45 minutes.
Equal Opportunity & Inclusivity
An equal opportunity employer, Benifex values diversity. We do not discriminate on account of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Need reasonable adjustments? Let us know at any stage.
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