Software Developer (PHP) - #1700220

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?

• Team: Work with seasoned engineers that care deeply about writing good, clean, well-architected code.
• Impact: See the impact of your work, as it is deployed and used in production in the same day!
• Progression: Learn from top engineers and gain experience to allow you to progress to a Senior Software Developer
• Meaning: Work on a product that democratises access to employee benefits
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• 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 people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**

Great Benefits

£40,000-55,000

Tech set-up of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)

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!

Role Overview

In line with our continued growth at Benifex, we are excited to announce that we are recruiting for a Software Developer within our SME team due to a recent promotion.

As part of our product development team, you will work on our employee benefits platform that provides employees at SMEs with fantastic benefits.

Our team is continuously releasing software and delivering value to our customers, so you’ll see the direct impact of your work. You’ll be collaborating heavily with other developers and senior developers all the way up to the CTO. You’ll contribute to design sessions and be involved in all elements of the development process, touching both the back and front end.

Our tech stack is PHP, Laravel, MySQL, React, AWS, Docker, Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Write clean and maintainable code across all parts of the codebase
• Develop software according to Agile practices, using TDD and iterative user stories to develop software efficiently, securely and of high quality
• Participate and communicate effectively in Agile ceremonies and team discussions
• Give feedback and perform code review for others
• Contribute to design discussions and identify areas of improvement
• Support QA and the client support teams when necessary, with the live codebase
• Use configuration management tools to track and control code development
• Produce and maintain documentation

What are we looking for?

• Solid experience creating PHP based services, ideally using Laravel
• Good understanding of object-oriented design patterns and writing clean code
• Experience working on cloud architecture and software built on REST APIs, with the ability to implement high quality code and deliver on time
• Experience with SQL databases such as MySQL
• Experience and understanding of production services in cloud environments
• Willingness to adopt Agile processes, including TDD and iterative development

Nice To Haves

• TDD or BDD
• AWS or Docker
• Front-end development experience using React
• Mobile app development experience using React Native

Even if you don't meet all 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 the hiring manager and a member of the team

Technical task

Final interview with the Director

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.