Software engineer

• Full time; reporting to the engineering manager for their team
• Southwark, London / Remote (UK)
• UK Right to work required
• £48,000, annual bonus and share options
• Start Date: from April 2025
  
  

Description

For far too long, pensions have been difficult to understand and manage. Founded in 2014, we aspire to make as many people as possible pension confident so that everyone can enjoy a happy retirement.

PensionBee is creating a global leader in the consumer retirement market with over £5.5 billion in assets on behalf of more than 260,000 customers. We help our customers to combine their retirement savings into a new online account, which they can manage from the palm of their hand.

PensionBee accounts are invested by the world’s largest investment managers, collectively looking after more than $10 trillion in savings between them. Each PensionBee customer has a personal account manager (“BeeKeeper”) to guide them through their savings and retirement journey. PensionBee has an “Excellent” Trustpilot rating based on over 10,000 reviews.

As a public company, we aspire to the highest standards in everything we do because our customers deserve peace of mind. Our team of over 200 pension professionals, based in London and New York, has one focus: our customer.

PensionBee is named in FT1000 Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Companies in 2023 and 2024’ and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON: PBEE).

PensionBee is growing at scale and we need a Software Engineer to help craft a world-class product.

About The Role

Making life simple for customers takes a lot of thought and effort, so we need talented software engineers to contribute to the next chapter of PensionBee’s story. Engineers at PensionBee tackle a wide variety of challenges across multiple technologies while enjoying a balanced and inclusive culture.

This role is a great opportunity to make an impact and grow your experience as a member of a small yet sustainably growing engineering function. Equally, PensionBee is a financially secure and socially beneficial company with a diverse team and a healthy work-life balance, so you can progress your career without sacrificing what matters most.

Key responsibilities

• Help craft world-class products and features as part of one our empowered cross-functional product teams
• Model good practices for others and help guide more junior developers, as part of our culture of continuous improvement
• Share ownership of the technical stack, both in terms of product delivery and also technical innovation
• Contribute to decisions across the broader engineering team, on production systems & architecture, and also automation and internal tooling
• Option to take on increasing responsibility and leadership as the team scales, including taking the lead on specific areas of tech, or progressing into people management
  
  

Technologies we use

It Is Useful To Have Some Experience Or Interest In These, But We Are More Interested In Your Ability Than Specific Experience

• Node.js
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript
• React & React Native
• Salesforce / Apex
• SQL and no-SQL databases (Postgres / MongoDB)
• Heroku / AWS
  
  

Requirements

The key skills required are:

• Love for the quality of your work and attention to detail
• Able to work effectively and empathically in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with product managers, designers, and other developers on projects
• Relevant professional experience and competence using technologies relevant to modern web development (see above for examples)
• Confidence with good practices, patterns and techniques in software development, but also a love of learning and personal development
• Clear written and spoken English
  
  

Diversity & Inclusion at PensionBee

We welcome all candidates and are proud to have been awarded Employer of the Year at the Financial Adviser Diversity in Finance Awards 2022 and Trailblazing Company of the Year 2024.

We know the need to meet every criteria can sometimes get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates. We believe the right drive is often more important than degrees, so if you have an interest in the role, relevant past experience and are passionate about what we do, get in touch as we'd love to hear from you.

Additionally, it’s not just about paying lip service but monthly celebrations of our differences and opportunities to learn more about our colleagues and friends; from our discussion on men’s mental health to our Pride Picnic. At PensionBee we're committed to provide equal rights, opportunities and treatment for all. We believe all companies have a duty to provide a supportive working environment for their employees and should be transparent. Here you can find our Gender Equality policy and Diversity and Inclusion policy which provide more information on our approach, including our commitments to flexible working requests and reasonable adjustments from day one.

We want everyone to be able to access the same opportunity, and some people might need extra support to have this access. If there's an adjustment we can make that would help you perform to the best of your ability during the application process, like using a computer during a task instead of writing by hand, or booking in time for a longer interview, please reach out to our Training and Culture Manager. We kindly ask you to only contact Emma related to reasonable adjustments enquiris on [email protected].

Benefits

• end of year bonus and equity schemes
• fully remote working enabled environment and culture;
• 25 days annual leave, 5 extra days for people with caring responsibilities and additional leave days for people living with a disability;
• generous and transparent gender inclusive Parental Leave policy;
• pension scheme with 5% matching employer contribution;
• UK Healthcare Cash Plan, Thrive, SmartHealth Virtual GP, Income Protection Insurance and Enjoy Benefits
• regular company-wide sessions: CEO Session, Show & Tell and varied D&I agenda; giving you an opportunity to share your ideas and learn about other areas of the business;
• a Happiness! meeting: Every 6 weeks you will have the chance to speak with your manager about your well-being; and
• a warm and motivated team working to make a real difference for our customers.
  
  

Hiring Process

Application question with CV

• Why do you want to work at PensionBee?
  
  

Stage 1: Short written exercise

Stage 2: Informal chat with the hiring manager with selected candidates

Stage 3: Written Assessment: Coding challenge task marked by two assessors

Stage 4: Final 90min interview (two structured interviews (45min each, total 90mins)) with shortlisted candidates

Shortlisted candidates will have final decisions be made and unsuccessful candidates will receive feedback.

Additional information about the two structured interviews;

• behavioural/competency interviews
• questions are pre-determined to keep things consistent
• each interview will have two people from within engineering
• one has a slightly more technical skew and one is slightly more on collaboration, but neither is exclusively one topic