Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• 💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Allowance: 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
• 🔋 £500 annual Learning & Personal Development Ben Balance: plus 3 days paid study leave a year to support you with your professional development
• 👩🏽‍💻 £500 work from home set up allowance, which you can put towards your home office
• 🍔 Weekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food
• 🏖 28 days of holidays a year + bank holidays
• 🍼 Enhanced parental leave, workplace nursery scheme, and assisted reproduction paid leave & support
• 🧠 Comprehensive and tailored wellbeing support through a leading provider
• 💪 Access to a Classpass membership!
• ❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance, Healthcare Cash Plan & discounted cancer screening
• 🍿 Team activities to support spending time together and we frequently organise company wide events
• 🚲 Cycle-to-work & electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
• 🌎 Work-from-anywhere scheme
• 🏥 Life insurance