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Job description
About Us
Perk, previously known as TravelPerk, offers a smart platform specializing in travel and spend management. Our technology automates traditionally tedious tasks like booking travel, managing expenses, and processing invoices. This automation helps save time, improves morale, and fosters innovation by reducing unproductive work. Trusted by over 12,000 companies including Bolt, GoCardless, and Fabletics, we address the problem of 7 hours of lost productivity per employee per week, a $1.7 trillion issue globally.
Founded in 2015, Perk has grown to a workforce of more than 1,800 professionals spread across 12 offices worldwide, with headquarters in London and Boston. Our mission is to revolutionize workplace experience through innovation, control, and simplicity. We emphasize values such as ownership, delivering outstanding customer experiences, and teamwork while valuing curiosity, purpose, and mindset over knowledge alone.
Role Summary
As an Engineering Manager at Perk, you will be responsible for leading and developing your team(s), adapting your leadership approach to meet varying needs. You will ensure individual performance management, provide coaching and mentorship, and serve as a technical advocate creating an environment where quality systems are built in line with organizational requirements. You will foster effective team collaboration, address architectural and implementation challenges, and collaborate with Product Management to define and execute long-term strategies aligned with the tribe's mission.
Key responsibilities also include strategic team planning to deliver scalable, highly available features, leading recruitment, and working closely with business and team metrics to guarantee exceptional customer experiences. You will communicate feedback to engineering and product stakeholders and help shape how engineering impacts product and business outcomes.
AI Integration at Perk
AI is integral in our workflows and product development. Day-to-day tools such as Notion, Jira, GitHub, and Slack are AI-augmented to speed up onboarding, feature specification, code writing and review, and error context analysis in production. We embrace agentic coding, where AI acts as an active collaborator. Candidates are expected to demonstrate familiarity with AI tools during interviews, showcasing deep code understanding and ownership.
Qualifications and Experience
- Proven experience managing approximately 8-10 software engineers.
- Technical background in software engineering with hands-on individual contributor experience.
- Effective people management skills capable of fostering a positive and productive team culture.
- Experience overseeing larger teams requiring process creation and delegation systems.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, addressing both technical and organizational challenges to empower your team.
- Competency in conducting thorough performance reviews, recognizing accomplishments, and facilitating growth aligned with individuals’ goals and business objectives.
- Prioritization of simplicity, efficiency, and performance with a pragmatic approach.
- Agility in adapting to a dynamic and rapidly changing environment.
- Interest or experience in managing AI-augmented development workflows, encouraging your team to leverage and extend AI capabilities through custom agentic skills.
Work Culture and Location
Perk follows an in-real-life (IRL) first work approach, requiring presence in the office three days per week to enhance connectivity, productivity, creativity, and overall workplace satisfaction. This position mandates residency within commuting distance of our London office. English is the official language at the office, and support is available for relocation from international locations.
Equal Opportunity and Security
Perk embraces diversity and is an equal opportunity employer aiming to build a workforce reflective of the diverse global clientele. We maintain strict communication protocols and warning against recruitment scams, ensuring candidate safety and confidentiality throughout the hiring process.