Frontend Engineer

Benifex
Southampton, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 70K

Job location

Southampton, United Kingdom

Tech stack

HTML
.NET
Agile Methodologies
CSS
ECMAScript
Responsive Web Design
TypeScript
React
Figma
Front End Software Development
React
REST
Microservices

Job description

Our product is the entry point to the product suite, where the customer's employees land when they first log in and the team is responsible for the customer having a seamless experience using the Global Navigation and Homepage.

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 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.

Tech stack includes React, TypeScript, Redux, Redux-Sagas, RsBuild, MSW. Our backend services are .NET.

Responsibilities

The focus for the next 12 months will be:

  • 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

Requirements

Do you have experience in Web design?, * React and TypeScript Development: Proven ability to build scalable, reusable frontend components using React, Hooks, and TypeScript.

  • Responsive Design: Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and responsive web design principles to ensure seamless user experiences across devices.
  • REST API Integration: Experience integrating frontend components with backend services through well-designed REST APIs.
  • Collaboration: Ability to work closely with UX designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver cohesive, user-centric solutions.
  • Proactive Problem-Solving: A resourceful mindset to identify and solve technical challenges effectively with minimal supervision.
  • Commitment to Quality: A passion for creating high-quality, maintainable code and contributing to shared frontend strategies for consistency and excellence.
  • 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.

Benefits & conditions

£55,000-70,000

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!

About the company

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

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