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About the Role

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and develop teams, acting as a servant leader and technical champion. The role involves strategic planning, team building, and ensuring the delivery of highly available features that scale with company growth, while fostering an effective work culture and driving AI-augmented development.

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
• Understanding your code and owning what you produce
• Candidates are expected to use AI tools in coding interviews

Skills

• AI-augmented workflows
• Agentic workflows
• Custom agentic skills

Location

• Based within commuting distance of our hubs

Work Type

• Hybrid
• 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.
• 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, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics.
• 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, 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 embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator, not just a prompt-by-prompt co-pilot.
• English is the official language at the office.
• We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week.

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.