--- title: 'Software Engineer (Data) at Ben' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-data-ben-london-ht7hg2s6m159' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Software Engineer (Data) at Ben - **Company:** Ben - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ben/77a0e08a-1061-4b70-aff3-b67f4ebe3c99 ## Job description ## OUR MISSION We’re not your average benefits platform – we’re the driving force that uplifts people’s lives. Our technology connects the entire benefits ecosystem, creating better outcomes for employers, employees, brokers, and providers. Our mission is clear: to build a world where everything works at its best, ensuring every employee gets the support they need to thrive—both at work and beyond. ## YOUR MISSION As our Software Engineer (Data), you’ll build and run the pipelines, orchestration, and infrastructure that move data across Ben: in from our product and the tools we use, in from our customers, and back out to them again. It’s the plumbing the whole company and our customers depend on, and it has to stay reliable. We serve global enterprise customers with strict security and reliability requirements. You’ll own real work from day one. You’ll have a strong team of cross functional engineers alongside you, room to grow into harder problems, and the freedom to do the job your way. ## WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON - Own everything that flows into Ben: build and maintain the ingestion pipelines that bring data into our warehouse, with Fivetran for managed sources and custom pipelines where we need them. - Keep everything running on time: own the orchestration that keeps data moving on schedule and recovers cleanly when something breaks. - Scale and manage our data infrastructure: build and manage our data infrastructure as code with Terraform, using mainly AWS services. - Connect Ben to every system our customers run: build enterprise-grade pipelines and connectors for our customers, bringing their data in, for example from HR and payroll systems, and getting accurate data back out to them, reliably and securely, even at the volumes large customers bring. - Build the data layer our agents act on: help connect our data to the AI agents and services we're building, including through MCP connectors, so they get the right context at the right time. - Shape what we build: work with product and other stakeholders to scope problems and agree on simple but scalable solutions. - Build it to enterprise standard: build to current security practice, for example the OWASP Top 10 and the AWS Well-Architected Framework. ## BEHIND THE SCENES Ben runs on Python 3, Django, PostgreSQL, and React, on AWS. Our data platform today is built around Fivetran, AWS DMS or custom pipelines for ingestion, dbt for transformation, PostgreSQL on AWS RDS as the warehouse, and n8n or AWS Lambda for automation between systems. We manage our infrastructure as code with Terraform and use different AWS services depending on requirements. We have adopted frontier level agentic development practices and continue to push the envelope of what’s possible with current technologies. ## YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE - Strong experience with Python and SQL. - A few years building and running production data pipelines that other people relied on. - Comfortable with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform, and hands-on with AWS, for example Lambda, ECS, Glue, S3, RDS. - A good grasp of ETL/ELT and orchestration. - Experience building or running data integrations and connectors, especially ones that other companies or customers depend on, is a real plus. - Solid software engineering fundamentals: clean code, sensible design, and tests you can rely on. - You keep security in mind when you build applications and configure infrastructure, and you know what enterprise customers expect of their data. ## NICE TO HAVE, NOT ESSENTIAL: - Experience working on customer-facing data integrations such as HRIS or payroll feeds via SFTP and in EDI format - Experience with MCP server development, or different ways of preparing data for AI agents such as ontology modelling, context, knowledge graphs, and semantic layers. We don't expect all of it. We do expect curiosity about it. WHY JOIN US? Ben's customers are large enterprise employers, and the hundreds of thousands of people who work for them rely on us to get their benefits right, every time. That depends on data moving accurately between their systems and ours, every cycle. You get to work on the data infrastructure that makes this run like clockwork. At the same time, Ben is an AI-native organisation. Agents are already doing a lot of impactful work here, and they can only do it on data they can trust. That raises questions a dashboard never had to answer. How fresh does this need to be for an agent to act on it? How do you match the same entity across tools? How do you control what an agent is allowed to see? Very few engineers have answered those in production. You'd be one of them. You'll take ownership of large, complex problem spaces, help design how they scale, and build an agentic layer few engineers have built anywhere yet, and you'll see the impact of it: Ben supports hundreds of thousands of people across 30+ countries. ## OUR COMPENSATION & BENEFITS It's important to us to practise what we preach when it comes to benefits. We know what good looks like and we want to provide the best for our team, with a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package. You'll have a choice over the things that are most important to you. You can see a selection below, with the full offering here https://www.thanksben.com/benefits-at-ben. 💰 Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build ⭐ Bonus scheme designed to reward and recognise high performance 💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by £50 for each year of service until you reach £250 🍔 Weekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food! 🏖 28 days of holidays a year plus bank holidays, and an option to buy or sell 5 days per year. Your holiday entitlement increases to 30 days at your 3rd year of service! 🌴 Work-from-abroad scheme, so you can support your travels, enjoy an extended holiday, or visit loved ones. 🍼 Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting ❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance 💌 Funded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase. This also includes an annual health check 🧠 Comprehensive mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider ## DIVERSITY AND CULTURE AT BEN We are organically growing a brilliantly diverse, inclusive and respectful bunch of people we are extremely proud of. This should go without saying, but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application, just let us know by emailing jobs@thanksben.com. ## About Ben ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ben is an AI-native global employee benefits platform that enables enterprises to manage, deliver, and optimize benefits programmes across multiple markets from a single, unified system. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: David (co-founder, background at HSBC) and Seb (co-founder, former UK Managing Director at Secret Escapes) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: HR Technology / Employee Benefits / SaaS - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (mid-market to large global enterprises operating across multiple countries) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To create a world working at its best — where every individual can live their best life, at work and outside of work. The company is on a mission to turn global benefits complexity into clarity. ## Products & Services - **Ben Platform (AI-native)**: A unified, single-codebase platform for managing global employee benefits. It replaces fragmented, multi-system approaches with one programme across every market, offering local flexibility built in. Features include an eligibility rules engine, multi-entity configuration, regional policy management, payroll reconciliation, global spend dashboards, segmented utilisation reports, and CFO-ready exports. - **Ben Allowance**: A flexible benefits perk for employees, providing a monthly allowance (starting at £100, increasing with tenure up to £250 per month) to spend on whatever benefits they choose. - **Data & Insights Module**: Provides live data on programme cost, delivery, and utilisation — designed to give CFOs and HR leaders actionable analytics without manual spreadsheet work. - **Mobile-first Employee Experience**: A mobile-first interface that gives employees clear, plain-language access to their benefits on any device, with no corporate email required. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Raised $16M in Series A funding; manages tens of millions in benefits spend for customers across 140+ countries - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly named in source materials, but the company is ISO 27001:2022 certified, GDPR compliant (as both data controller and processor), and holds Cyber Essentials, FSQS, and NIST CSF + CIS certifications. The platform supports SSO via SAML 2.0 and OIDC. - **Growth Signals**: The company has grown from 11 customers and 10 employees (2021) to 113 customers and 46 employees (2023), and then to 162 customers, 93 employees, and over 50,000 users (2024). It now has over 100 employees and 373 total employees listed on Built In. The company opened its first London office in 2022 and currently has two offices. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native, single-codebase architecture**: Unlike legacy competitors that rely on patchwork systems across markets, Ben runs on one unified platform with no legacy debt, enabling AI that catches errors before they reach payroll. - **Enterprise-grade security and compliance**: ISO 27001:2022 certified with zero non-conformities at last audit; GDPR compliant as both data controller and processor; NIST CSF + CIS mapped; Cyber Essentials and FSQS certified. - **Global coverage, local flexibility**: Supports enterprises operating across 140+ countries with built-in local compliance, eligibility rules, and multi-entity configuration. - **Data-driven insights for CFOs**: Provides live, consolidated data on programme spend and utilisation — not spreadsheet exports — making it defensible in finance meetings. ## Strategic Focus - **Global expansion**: Scaling the platform to serve enterprises in more markets while maintaining a unified experience. - **AI-driven automation**: Continuing to embed AI into the platform to automate compliance, error detection, and recommendations. - **Employee engagement**: Driving utilisation and satisfaction through a mobile-first, consumer-grade employee experience. - **Enterprise procurement readiness**: Maintaining and expanding security certifications to meet the procurement requirements of financial services and other regulated industries. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: The company describes itself as building a culture that encourages cross-team collaboration, socialising, and a sense of inclusion and belonging. Employee-led clubs (book club, running club, climbing club) and quarterly team social budgets are part of the culture. - **Work model**: Hybrid (with offices in London); employees can work from anywhere for a limited time each year. - **Benefits for employees**: Every employee gets a monthly Ben Allowance (£100–£250/month) to spend flexibly on their own benefits. UK employees get comprehensive Private Medical Insurance (fully funded by Ben), life insurance, and assisted reproduction support. Weekly lunches are provided in-office and for remote teams. There are regular all-company events and a "Ben Buddies" random pairing programme with a budget for coffee/lunch. - **Learning**: A programme of breakfast and learn sessions with internal and external speakers. - **Engineering culture**: The company is building a modern, AI-native platform with no legacy debt, which is likely appealing to engineers who want to work on greenfield-style problems. ## Sources 1. [thanksben.com (Careers)](https://www.thanksben.com/careers) 2. [thanksben.com (Homepage)](https://www.thanksben.com/) 3. [thanksben.com (About Us)](https://www.thanksben.com/about-us) 4. [Built In (Ben)](https://builtin.com/company/ben-thanksbencom) 5. [thanksben.com (Benefits at Ben)](https://www.thanksben.com/benefits-at-ben) ## Other roles at Ben - [GTM Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-engineer-ben-london-n5w4v3e8ze7h) — London, United Kingdom - [Bid Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/bid-manager-ben-london-rr57akjatrdm) — London, United Kingdom - [Business Development Representative](https://feeny.ai/job/business-development-representative-ben-london-2kpffgsr8vsm) — London, United Kingdom - [Fullstack Engineer (Backend leaning)](https://feeny.ai/job/fullstack-engineer-backend-leaning-ben-london-cwn0za2rw56m) — London, United Kingdom