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About the Role

As an Engineering Manager for the Application Enablement team, you'll lead a group of experienced engineers responsible for building and evolving the shared infrastructure underlying Perk's web, iOS, and Android platforms. You'll manage a team that works across multiple platforms and product surfaces, partnering closely with staff engineers, product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact foundational work. The team is currently focused on several strategic initiatives, requiring strong technical leadership, thoughtful prioritisation, and the ability to help the team execute effectively while maintaining engineering quality. You'll help shape the technical direction of that shared infrastructure and support the team in navigating a broad, cross-cutting domain that includes design systems, mobile release pipelines, frontend tooling, and UX reliability. You'll help balance the demands of immediate delivery with long-term platform sustainability, and manage the tension between proactive foundational investment and reactive support from product teams across the business. While deep expertise in native mobile or frontend platform engineering is not a strict requirement, experience working within complex, multi-platform systems is important. Through strong people leadership, technical judgement, and operational excellence, you'll help Perk's builders ship faster and with greater confidence across every surface the product runs on.

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 with—or a strong interest in—modern AI-augmented workflows
Driving your team to leverage agentic workflows, develop custom agentic skills to extend AI capabilities
Submit an updated portfolio and/or resume
English is the official language at the office

Skills

Technical leadership
Prioritisation
Execution
Engineering quality
Technical judgement
Operational excellence
People leadership
AI-Driven Development
Agentic workflows
Agentic skills

Location

Commuting distance of our hubs

Work Type

Hybrid

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.
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.
We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics.
We are 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.
AI is embedded in how we work and what we build.
On the engineering side, AI spans the whole workflow: our Notion, Jira, GitHub and Slack are AI-connected so you get up to speed fast, and day-to-day it helps with specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review on every pull request.
When something goes wrong in production, AI surfaces context across systems quickly.
We also embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator, not just a prompt-by-prompt co-pilot.
We expect candidates to use AI tools in our coding interviews.
The bar is understanding your code and owning what you produce.
That reflects how we work every day.

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.