Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (Web, React Native Mobile)

About this role

ABOUT US

At Benepass we're making benefits easy. We believe people are the most important asset to any company. Traditional one-size-fits-all benefits packages no longer cut it in today's hybrid and remote-first environment. With Benepass, companies can tailor their benefits to the unique needs of their workforce.

Through our easy-to-use and highly customizable fintech platform, People teams can implement, administer, and track the benefits that meet employees where they are. Employers design their benefits and perks plan by setting a contribution amount and eligible spend categories. Every employee has their own individual definition of wellness and needs different things to help them be their most productive, fulfilled self.

OUR MISSION

Helping companies reimagine how companies take care of their people.

OUR INVESTORS

We are backed by leading investors, including Centana Growth Partners, Portage Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Workday Ventures, and Clocktower Technology Ventures. To date, the company has raised approximately $75 million in equity capital.

ARTICLES

- Founder Story - Jaclyn Chen https://bit.ly/3FpQ0ti

- Benepass Raises $40M Series B https://getbenepass.com/blog/benepass-raises-40m-series-b-to-help-employers-redesign-benefits-for-rising-healthcare-costs

CANDIDATE RESOURCES

- Benepass | Candidate Resource Page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_OTFvktl-2SoxPn_tkZzyHECSKM0V14hVZOy1ZdZ8zE/edit?usp=sharing

- Benepass Listed on Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2023 https://bit.ly/3EAXv0Q

TEAM & ROLE

Benepass is scaling rapidly, and the complexity of our product surface demands senior engineers who can bridge product vision and technical execution. This Senior Frontend Engineer will be an impact multiplier: leading frontend architecture decisions, breaking down large initiatives into clear technical approach documents and milestones, and mentoring other engineers while raising our technical bar and using AI as a force multiplier while still being thoughtful about it’s output.

They will work primarily in React and TypeScript, building and maintaining our web application surfaces, and will have the opportunity to spread across the stack to contribute to our React Native mobile app on iOS and Android. We're looking for a strong web engineer who has strong attention to detail, curiosity about increasing velocity and impact with AI without hindering quality, and is excited to extend their reach into mobile — comfort with (or curiosity for) React Native is a meaningful plus, and you'll have the support to grow those skills here. However, the team has two mobile engineers so deep expertise is not required.

YOU WILL:

- Lead the creation of technical approach documents that define architecture, system interactions, trade-offs, and execution plans.

- Be a fluent adopter of AI tools, actively using AI coding assistants and emerging tooling to accelerate development, raise quality, and continuously rethink how engineering work gets done.

- Partner early in product discovery with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to clarify goals, evaluate options, and recommend a technical approach.

- Take ownership of front-end initiatives across web (component architecture, state strategy, performance considerations, help define API contracts).

- Spread across the stack to build and maintain features in our React Native mobile app, improving cross-platform consistency between React web and React Native mobile.

- Strengthen testing practices and uphold security standards across web and mobile surfaces, including secure data handling, authentication flows, and sensitive financial information.

- Contribute to release reliability across surfaces (build tooling, versioning, CI/CD, and—on mobile—TestFlight and store submission flows).

- Guide teams through execution of agreed-upon approaches, ensuring work is delivered with high quality, precision, and in a timely manner.

- Bring forward strong architectural ideas, evaluate trade-offs, and influence system direction.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to mid-level and senior engineers.

- Identify and drive improvements to system stability, performance, developer experience, and engineering practices.

OUR TECHNOLOGY AND STACK

JavaScript/TypeScript, React, React Native, iOS Native (Swift/Objective-C bridging), Kotlin, Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes.

REQUIREMENTS

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent building production web applications.

- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript, including hooks, context providers, Suspense boundaries, and component composition patterns.

- Experience shipping and maintaining production front-end systems through the full release lifecycle.

- Strong system design instincts for front-end architecture, including state management, data fetching patterns, and navigation/routing.

- Experience improving performance, reliability, and maintainability of user-facing systems, such as rendering performance, animation smoothness, and load/startup time.

- Eagerness to learn across the stack and contribute to React Native mobile surfaces; prior React Native experience (or hands-on native experience in Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, or Java) is a strong plus but not required.

- Experience working on high domain complexity systems such as financial services, secure payment flows, or similarly regulated environments.

- Experience working within CI/CD pipelines and modern release workflows

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ABOUT YOU

Product & Architecture Leadership

- Partners closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to translate ambiguous ideas into actionable, valuable solutions.

- Shapes technical direction early in the discovery process, evaluating multiple approaches and trade-offs through technical approach documents.

- Ensures architecture decisions…