Sr. Software Engineer (Design Engineering)

Sr. Software Engineer (Design Engineering) 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 Portage Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Workday Ventures, and Clocktower Technology Ventures. To date, the company has raised $35 million of 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 frontend and product experience requires engineers who can translate design and product ideas into high-quality, scalable UI systems. As a Senior Design Engineer, you will play a key role in building and evolving Benepass’s design system and frontend foundations. You’ll partner on execution of a new frontend component library, contribute to overall frontend technical direction, and help bring consistency and quality to our UI across the product. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative. You’ll work closely with Design, Product, and Engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into well-structured, reusable components and patterns. You’ll also help improve developer experience and frontend practices across the team. You will have meaningful ownership over systems and features, while contributing to broader initiatives led by the frontend leadership. YOU WILL BUILD AND EVOLVE THE DESIGN SYSTEM - Contribute to the development and evolution of Benepass’s design system and component library. - Build reusable, accessible, and scalable React/TypeScript components. - Help define and refine component APIs with a focus on usability and composability. - Ensure consistency in styling, theming, and responsive behavior across the product. PARTNER CLOSELY WITH DESIGN, PRODUCT, AND ENGINEERING - Collaborate with Design to translate UI/UX concepts into reusable components and patterns. - Work with Product to understand requirements, constraints, and tradeoffs. - Support engineers in adopting and using design system components effectively. - Help ensure strong alignment between design intent and implementation. - Act as a bridge between design vision and engineering execution at an organizational level DELIVER HIGH-QUALITY FRONTEND SYSTEMS - Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. - Apply best practices across React, TypeScript, styling, and accessibility. - Identify opportunities to improve performance, consistency, and code quality. - Contribute to frontend architecture decisions in partnership with senior and lead engineers. IMPROVE DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE - Contribute to documentation, examples, and tooling (e.g., Storybook, styleguides). - Help streamline workflows for building and using UI components. - Identify and address friction in the frontend development process. SUPPORT TEAM GROWTH AND STANDARDS - Provid ... (truncated, view full listing at source)