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About the Role

At Perk, we know that we feel most fulfilled when we can own the problem and the solution. This means taking responsibility for the entire lifecycle of a feature, from understanding customer pains to deployment and measuring impact. You will see how your technical decisions move the needle for our customers daily. We prioritize autonomy and pragmatism, giving you the space to solve complex problems without unnecessary friction. Engineering excellence here is measured by the reliability and simplicity of the systems you build to power a global platform.

Responsibilities

Own the entire lifecycle of a feature, from understanding customer pains to deployment and measuring impact.
Refine the 'what to build' and 'why' to shape the bigger picture.
Go beyond the technical solution to focus on the problem itself.
Contribute to squad's quarterly goals and long-term vision.
Architect scalable, evolvable systems and data models.
Define and uphold engineering excellence, including CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards.
Establish frontend architecture patterns, including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing.
Engineer sophisticated backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migration plans.
Lead observability and SRE practices, define SLOs, manage incident responses, and conduct blameless post-mortems.
Oversee operational security, including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management.
Level up the engineering organization through active mentorship, leading design reviews, and influencing the product roadmap.
Coordinate multi-team deliverables and align stakeholders to resolve technical blockers.
Leverage AI tools in coding interviews, demonstrating understanding and ownership of code.
Use AI tools in daily workflows for specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review.
Embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator.
Support less experienced colleagues through direct mentorship and thoughtful feedback.
Help Engineering Managers understand team technical growth areas.
Lift the overall engineering standard through guild meetings, design doc reviews, and pairing sessions.

Requirements

Translate complex business goals into technical roadmaps.
De-risk ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping.
Architect systems and data models that account for performance, failure isolation, and long-term maintenance.
Ensure CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards across the stack.
Establish frontend architecture patterns, including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing (e.g., E2E/Cypress).
Engineer backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migration plans.
Lead observability and SRE practices; define SLOs, manage incident responses, and conduct blameless post-mortems.
Oversee operational security, including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management.
Level up the engineering organization through active mentorship, leading design reviews, and influencing the product roadmap with technical data.
Coordinate multi-team deliverables and align stakeholders to resolve technical blockers across the organization.
Experience with—or a strong interest in—modern AI-augmented workflows.
Leverage agentic workflows, develop custom agentic skills to extend AI capabilities, utilize AI-powered code reviews.

Skills

Product Leadership
System Architecture
Technical Standards
Frontend Strategy
Backend Excellence
Operational Maturity
Security & Risk
Mentorship & Influence
Cross-Functional Impact
AI-Driven Development

Location

Commuting distance of our hubs

Work Type

IRL-first approach
In-person 3 days a week
Relocation assistance available

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management.
Our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more.
We are on a mission to power real work, with real impact.
Trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide.
Tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.
Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston.
We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.
Driven by values: being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team.
Value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge.
Talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries.
Excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work.
AI is embedded in how we work and what we build.
AI spans the whole engineering workflow: Notion, Jira, GitHub and Slack are AI-connected.
AI helps with specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review.
AI surfaces context across systems quickly when something goes wrong in production.
Embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator.
Expect candidates to use AI tools in coding interviews.
The bar is understanding your code and owning what you produce.
We believe the best work happens when great people come together in small teams, with a shared sense of purpose.
Join a cross-functional squad with real ownership of a piece of Perk’s domains.
Have a genuine say in what gets built and the autonomy to make it happen.
Each team decides how to contribute to Perk’s company goals.
Care about impact, and trust people to deliver it.
Senior engineers are expected to go beyond the technical solution and focus on the problem itself.
Believe in impact over effort: customers see results, not the hours behind them.
Influence won't stop at your own squad; communicate complex ideas across multiple teams.
Operate comfortably beyond your immediate team.
Senior engineers are mentors, coaches, and bar raisers.
We are a team, the team's success is your success.
English is the official language at the office.
Submit resume in English.
Submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.
Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that.

Equal Opportunity

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.