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Engineering Manager
About Perk
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.
About the Role
Engineering Manager
As an Engineering Manager, you will:
- Be accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s)
- Act as a servant leader to your engineers, adapting your leadership style to the needs of the situation
- Take care of individuals' performance in the organisation and support their career journey using coaching and mentoring
- Act as a technical champion, ensuring your team has the time and context to build high-quality systems that meet the needs and standards of our organisation
- Enable fluent and effective collaboration within the team, 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 aligning with the Tribe’s mission
- Build strategic initiatives for delivering highly available features that scale with our growth
- Be a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team
- Work with the business and team metrics to deliver a 7-star experience to our customers
- Provide actionable insight into how engineering impacts product and business needs
- Offer feedback to stakeholders within Builders (Product and Engineering) and sometimes the wider business
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AI at Perk
AI is embedded in how we work and what we build. On the engineering side, it spans the whole workflow:
- Our Notion, Jira, GitHub, and Slack are AI-connected to expedite onboarding and simplify workflows
- AI assists with specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review on every pull request
- When something goes wrong in production, AI quickly surfaces context across systems
- We embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator, not just a co-pilot
We expect candidates to use AI tools in coding interviews. The focus should be on understanding your code and owning what you produce, reflecting how we work daily.
Required Skills and Experience
- 5-8 years of experience managing software engineers (this role typically manages 8-10 engineers)
- Technical background, ideally in software engineering, where you were a hands-on individual contributor (IC)
- Experience managing larger teams, with a focus on building processes and systems of delegation
- Ability to act as a problem finder and solver, both technically and organisationally—to help your team overcome obstacles to perform at their best
- Skilled in running effective performance reviews that balance achievement recognition with growth opportunities aligned with business needs
- Strong obsession for pragmatism, simplicity, efficiency, and performance
- Ability to adapt and react fast to an ever-changing environment
- Experience with (or strong interest in) AI-driven development, including:
- Driving your team to leverage agentic workflows (e.g., AI team members, prompt design)
- Developing custom AI tools or agentic capabilities to enhance workflows
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How We Work
At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, meaning our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs.
We firmly believe in the value of in-person collaboration—it fosters connectivity, productivity, creativity, and ultimately makes Perk a great place to work.
Additional Notes
For certain eligible roles, we can assist with relocation from anywhere in the world, but English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume and portfolio (if applicable) in English.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we aim to ensure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, meaning you’re welcome at Perk regardless of background or identity.
Important Job Security Note
Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams:
All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page.
We will never:
- Ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees
- Request sensitive personal information (e.g., bank details) early in the process
- Communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal
If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Perk, do not respond. Forward it to security@perk.com, and we will confirm its legitimacy.
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