5 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and coordinate shared technical direction across multiple Flights teams.
- Contribute to annual and quarterly planning with product managers, engineering managers, and engineers, translating plans into actionable priorities.
- Remain primarily hands-on while mentoring engineers, unblocking delivery, and collaborating with dependent teams.
- Shape engineering approaches, architectural changes, and investment priorities in support of business goals and scale.
- Lead cross-team initiatives, resolve dependencies and blockers, and drive broader organisational alignment.
- Build and operate reliable flight-booking systems covering platform reliability, post-booking self-service, booking error recovery, and airline inventory scaling.
- Raise engineering quality through mentorship, design reviews, pairing, and communication of technical complexity to the wider business.
Requirements
- Proven experience coordinating significant multi-team technical initiatives and managing dependencies across stakeholders.
- Ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and communicate clear technical roadmaps.
- Experience monitoring, testing, deploying, and operating services in production.
- Experience in complex domains such as flights, travel, fintech, or other constrained customer-facing systems is preferred.
- Strong backend experience with comfort across the full stack; Perk’s stack is approximately 80% backend and 20% frontend.
- Experience leading observability and reliability practices, defining SLOs, handling incidents, and conducting blameless post-mortems.
- Track record of mentoring engineers through mentorship, design reviews, pairing, and technical leadership.
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-augmented development, agentic coding, and AI-assisted code review.
- Ability to work within commuting distance of a Perk hub and work in person 3 days per week.
Benefits
- Hybrid, in-person work 3 days per week from a commuting-distance hub
- Relocation assistance may be available for certain roles
- English is the official office language
- Equal opportunity workplace
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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.