2 months ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$174k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and coordinate shared technical direction across multiple teams.
- Contribute to annual and quarterly planning with product managers, engineering managers, and engineers.
- Remain hands-on in frontend and backend product engineering while mentoring engineers and unblocking delivery.
- Design scalable, evolvable systems and define architectural changes and technical roadmaps.
- Lead multi-team technical initiatives, manage dependencies, and drive alignment across squads.
- Translate business goals into engineering approaches and actionable priorities.
- Mentor engineers through direct guidance, design reviews, and pairing.
- Lead observability and reliability practices, including SLOs, incident handling, monitoring, testing, production rollouts, and blameless post-mortems.
- Explain technical complexity and engineering tradeoffs to the wider business.
- Apply AI-augmented development workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted code review.
Requirements
- Demonstrated end-to-end product engineering experience, from understanding customer problems through deployment and measuring impact.
- Proven experience coordinating significant multi-team technical initiatives and managing dependencies and stakeholders.
- Strong architectural judgment and ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and clear technical roadmaps.
- Experience owning and operating services in production using a “you build it, you run it” approach.
- Experience working in complex domains such as travel, flights, fintech, or other constrained systems.
- Comfort working across frontend and backend systems, with particular depth in backend systems.
- Experience with Python and AWS, or the ability to learn comparable tools quickly.
- Operational maturity in observability, reliability practices, SLO definition, incident response, and blameless post-mortems.
- Track record of mentoring engineers, conducting design reviews, and raising engineering quality.
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-augmented development, agentic coding, and AI-assisted code review.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation plus equity ownership through stock options.
- 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays.
- Choice of three medical plans, company contributions, and an HSA option with an HDHP plan.
- Dental, vision, and Wellhub gym subscription coverage from the start date.
- Life and disability insurance from the start date, with voluntary buy-up options.
- 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
- Pet insurance partner discounts.
- Company events, including an annual summer party.
- Spring Health access with 12 therapy sessions and 12 coaching sessions for employees and loved ones.
- 12-16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- 16 paid volunteer hours per year.
- Up to 20 Work from Anywhere days per year.
- Four-week fully paid sabbatical after five years.
- Relocation support to a Perk hub may be available.
- Hybrid IRL-first schedule requiring in-person work three days per week and residence within commuting distance of a hub.
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About Perk
Perk builds a travel and spend management platform for businesses, combining online booking, extensive travel inventory, expense automation, invoice processing, and policy controls. It earns revenue through SaaS and travel transaction fees and serves over 10,000 companies, including Wise, On Running, and Breitling. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Boston and was formerly known as TravelPerk.