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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 being part in understanding what our customers' pains are with our product team, design documents, coding 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. Join the Flights team, one of Perk's fastest-growing engineering areas, tackling core platform reliability, self-serve post-booking, booking error recovery, and airline inventory scaling.

Responsibilities

Own the technical vision across teams.
Work across multiple teams to coordinate a shared technical direction.
Contribute to the creation of annual and quarterly plans in collaboration with product managers, engineering managers, and other engineers.
Translate plans into clear, actionable priorities for teams.
Be mostly hands-on, spending the majority of their time actively contributing within one or two teams.
Mentor engineers, unblock delivery, and work with dependent teams to move shared projects forward.
Take higher-level business goals and turn them into engineering approaches.
Propose the shape of annual objectives.
Identify architectural changes needed for scale.
Ensure the team is investing its energy where it counts most.
Support engineers through direct mentorship, design reviews, and pairing.
Help explain technical complexity to the wider business.
Coordinate across squads.
Contribute to engineering initiatives.
Drive alignment across the broader organisation.
Connect dots when there are dependencies or blockers.
Work end to end — from understanding customer problems alongside product, through to deployment and measuring impact.
Run own services — monitoring, testing, rolling out, and operating them in production.
Lead observability and reliability practices.
Define SLOs, handle incidents, and conduct blameless post-mortems.

Requirements

Product engineering mindset.
Cross-team technical leadership: proven experience coordinating significant, multi-team technical initiatives where you've had to manage dependencies, align stakeholders, and keep a longer-horizon project moving.
Architectural judgment: ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and articulate a clear technical roadmap — balancing long-term thinking with pragmatic, near-term delivery.
“You build it, you run it” experience.
Domain complexity: experience working in a domain with significant underlying complexity — ideally flights or travel, but also fintech or any industry where you've had to build reliable, customer-facing products on top of messy, constrained underlying systems.
Backend-heavy, full-stack comfortable: stack is roughly 80% backend, 20% frontend. Comfortable across both, with depth in backend systems.
Operational maturity: experience leading observability and reliability practices.
Mentorship and influence: a track record of levelling up engineers around you through mentorship, design reviews, and by modelling what great engineering looks like.
AI-driven development: experience with — or a strong interest in — modern AI-augmented workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted code review.
Must be based within commuting distance of our hubs.
Submit resume in English.
Submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Skills

Python
AWS
AI-connected tools (Notion, Jira, GitHub, Slack)
Agentic coding
AI-assisted code review
Monitoring
Testing
Rolling out services
Operating services in production
Observability
Reliability practices
Handling incidents
Blameless post-mortems
Mentorship
Design reviews
Pairing

Location

Commuting distance of our hubs

Work Type

IRL-first approach
In-person 3 days a week

Experience Level

Staff engineer

About the Company

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management.
Tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more.
Mission to power real work, with real impact.
Trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide.
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.
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.
English is the official language at the office.

Equal Opportunity

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that.
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.