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Engineering Manager, Application Enablement
(Remote & Relocation Options Available)
About Perk
Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management, automating tedious processes like bookings, expenses, and invoice handling. Our mission is to eliminate the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee per week ($1.7 trillion global impact) and empower teams to focus on real work.
Building on the vision since 2015, Perk now employs 1,800+ people across 12 global offices (headquartered in London and Boston), combining innovation, control, and simplicity. Our 70+ nationality-strong engineering team thrives on core values like "ownership," "7-star experiences," and teamwork. If you’re passionate about shaping how millions experience work, you belong here.
Explore more at www.perk.com.
About the Role: Engineering Manager, Application Enablement
As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Application Enablement team, you’ll lead an experienced group within Foundations—building and evolving the core infrastructure that powers Perk’s web, iOS, and Android platforms. Your team drives critical initiatives like synthetic monitoring, SDLC acceleration, and a contextual notifications platform, balancing immediate delivery with long-term innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Shape the roadmap of shared infrastructure, touching design systems, mobile release pipelines, frontend tooling, and UX reliability.
- Prioritization: Foster a culture of proactive foundational investments and reactive support across product teams.
- Collaboration: Partner with staff engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to balance speed, quality, and sustainability.
- Hands-on Leadership: Prioritize pragmatism, simplicity, efficiency, and performance—though deep expertise in native mobile or frontend engineering isn’t mandatory.
- Progressivoseness: Support coaches, mentors, and align personal growth with business goals.
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Strategic Areas
✔ Synthetic monitoring deployment ✔ SDLC workflow acceleration ✔ Cross-device scalability and reliability ✔ Architectural choices impacting Perk’s enterprise-grade platforms
Your Impact: How You’ll Lead Your Team
- Accountability: Drive delivery and individual growth through coaching, mentoring, and transparent performance reviews.
- Technical Support: Ensure engineers have the tools and space to build scalable, high-quality systems.
- Fluency & Problem-Solving: Foster self-collaboration while navigating complex architecture challenges.
- Strategy & Scaling: Develop a 5-year roadmap aligned with Tribe missions and business needs.
- Recruitment & Development: Grow your team ethically to improve morale and maintain Perk’s 7-star experience.
- Stakeholder Influence: Translate engineering needs to Product, Engineering, and business leadership with clarity.
AI: A Collaborator, Not a Tool
At Perk, AI is embedded in daily workflows—assisting with:
- Onboarding: AI-enhanced Notion/Jira/GitHub integrations.
- Development: Specifying features, writing/reviewing code, and AI PR reviews.
- Incidents: Contextual production debugging and diagnostic insights.
Expect: The managed expectation is for engineers to leverage AI via our custom agentic framework (think chatbots within codebases!). Your interviews will use AI tools—our bar is ownership of your code and collaboration.
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Requirements & Fit
Experience & Background
- Managerial tenure: 5–8 years of managing software engineers.
- Target knowledge: Leading teams of 8–10 engineers.
- Technical background: Ideally from software engineering with IC experience.
- People leadership: Cultivate a culture that enhances lives, not micromanages.
- Process-building: Manage larger teams with scales of delegation to spavance growth.
- Problem-solving: Find and resolve both technical and organizational hurdles.
Soft Skills & Adaptability
- ** Ownership, pragmatism**periority, focus on simplicity/performance over cost.
- Agility: Thrive in fast-moving, changing environments.
- AI-drive: Familiarity with AI-augmented workflows—come open to agentic protocols as tools of the future.
The Perk Way of Working
- IRL First: Hybrid in-person (3 days/week) for London/Boston. Relocation assistance available for global applicants.
- Focus: Error-free, feedback-rich, and geared toward long-term impact, not micromanagement.
- Diversity: A global team reflecting clients from every corner of the world— Differentiated by merit but embrace. We’re an EOE.
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At Perk, we never ask for:
- Any payment (equipment, training, etc.).
- Bank details甚至未事前行的细节问题.
- Communication via unofficial apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal).
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