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Sr. Software Engineer (Design Engineering)Benepass • New York, New York, United States
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Sr. Software Engineer (Design Engineering)

Benepass
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    New York, New York, United States
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About

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
Benepass Raises $40M Series B
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Benepass Listed on Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2023
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 Provide guidance and feedback to other engineers through code reviews and collaboration.
Help uphold frontend standards and best practices across the team.
Take ownership of projects and drive them to completion with minimal oversight.
Drive Innovation in UI Development Explore and implement modern approaches to UI development, including AI-assisted workflows.
Improve the speed and quality of the design → code pipeline through automation and tooling.
Evaluate emerging technologies and introduce those that meaningfully improve team velocity.
ABOUT YOU Strong Frontend Engineer 5+ years of frontend experience with deep knowledge of React and TypeScript.
Experience building and maintaining component libraries or design systems.
Solid understanding of component architecture, performance, and accessibility.
Thoughtful Collaborator Comfortable working closely with Design and Product.
Able to translate ambiguous requirements into clear, structured solutions.
Communicates tradeoffs and decisions clearly.
Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term system design.
Reliable Owner Takes ownership of features or systems and drives them to completion.
Balances speed with quality and maintainability.
Seeks feedback and incorporates it effectively.
Forward-Looking Builder Excited about AI and the future of UI development workflows.
Thoughtful about adopting new tools and approaches that improve speed and quality.
REQUIREMENTS 5+ years of frontend engineering experience (or equivalent impact).
Experience contributing to or maintaining frontend systems or design systems.
Expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern styling approaches.
Strong system design skills across UI architecture, performance, and scalability.
Deep understanding of accessibility standards and best practices.
Experience influencing engineering practices across teams or organizations.
Bonus: experience with schema-driven UI, design tooling, or AI-assisted development.
COMPENSATION Base salary of $170,000 to $200,000 + equity.
Range(s) is subject to change. Benepass takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including market comparables, interview performance, peer compensation, and years of experience.
What We Offer 95% coverage of medical, dental, and vision
Fantastic benefits (of course ), including: $250 WFH setup (one time)
$500/year Learning & Development Benefit
$150/month cell phone + internet
$100/month Wellness
$100/month Co-working and Commuter Benefit
We offer several team onsites a year
Flexible PTO
At Benepass, we are working towards reimaging how companies take care of their people. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Benepass is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.
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