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About the Role

As an Engineering Manager for the Cards Experience EU team, you will lead a distributed group of experienced engineers responsible for building and evolving the core card spending experience within the Spend domain. You will manage a team of predominantly senior engineers located across multiple European hubs, partnering closely with staff engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex, high-impact initiatives in a fast-moving environment. The team is currently focused on several urgent strategic projects, requiring strong technical leadership, thoughtful prioritization, and the ability to help teams execute effectively while maintaining engineering quality. You will help shape the technical direction of the platform and support the team in navigating a highly specialized domain that includes card infrastructure, banking integrations, and complex flows of funds, helping balance immediate delivery needs with long-term platform sustainability and maintainability. While deep domain expertise in payments, banking integrations, or financial systems is not a strict requirement, experience working within complex transactional systems is beneficial. Through strong people leadership, technical judgment, and operational excellence, you will help scale a reliable and seamless cards experience for customers across Europe.

Responsibilities

Being accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s)
Acting as servant leader to your engineers and adapting your leadership style to the needs of the situation
Taking care of individuals' performance in the organisation and supporting their journey and ownership of their career using coaching and mentoring where appropriate
Act as a technical champion, ensuring that the team has the time and context to build systems that meet the needs and standards of our organisation
Enabling fluent and effective collaboration within the team, and supporting them through challenges in system architecture, design or implementation
Develop and evolve a long-term strategy and roadmap for the team, working with the Product Manager and aligned with the Tribe mission
Strategic team building and planning for delivering highly available features that scale with our growth
Being a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team
Working with the business and team metrics to deliver a 7 star experience to our customers
An understanding of how engineering impacts product and business needs
Providing feedback to stakeholders within Builders (Product and Eng) and sometimes the wider business

Requirements

Around 5-8 years of experience managing software engineers
Managed (and will continue to) around 8-10 software engineers
Come from a technical background - ideally in software engineering, where you were a hands-on IC
A people manager who builds an effective work culture that improves the working lives of your team
Experience managing larger teams where it’s necessary to build processes and systems of delegation to get work done
Act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally, helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineering fellows to perform at their best
Run effective performance reviews that celebrate achievements and help your team identify where to grow next in line with their aspirations and the needs of the business
Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance
Ability to adapt and react fast to an ever-changing environment
Experience working within complex transactional systems

Location

Within commuting distance of our hubs

Work Type

IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week

Experience Level

5-8 years of experience managing software engineers
Managed around 8-10 software engineers

About the Company

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.
We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re 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.
At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.
Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

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.