3 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape product goals, technical roadmaps, and long-term vision with Product and Engineering Managers
- Architect scalable systems and write design documents for major platform changes
- Identify technical investments, manage technical debt, and uphold technical quality
- Lead cross-squad initiatives, engineering guild contributions, and alignment across teams
- Mentor engineers, provide review feedback, and raise engineering standards
- Coordinate multi-team deliverables and resolve technical blockers
- Lead observability, SRE practices, SLO definition, incident response, and post-mortems
- Oversee production security and dependency risk management
Requirements
- Experience translating complex business goals into technical roadmaps and de-risking ambiguous projects through prototyping or spikes
- Ability to architect scalable, evolvable systems and data models with attention to performance, failure isolation, and maintainability
- Expertise defining engineering standards, CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards
- Experience establishing frontend architecture, state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing such as E2E/Cypress
- Experience engineering backend systems involving API versioning, caching, and complex data migrations
- Operational experience with observability, SRE practices, SLOs, incident response, and blameless post-mortems
- Knowledge of operational security, secrets hygiene, and dependency risk management
- Demonstrated mentorship, design review leadership, and cross-functional technical influence
- Updated resume and/or portfolio submitted in English
Benefits
- 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays
- Three medical plans with company contributions and an HSA option
- Dental, vision, and Wellhub gym subscription
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k) with company matching
- Pet insurance partner discounts
- Company events, including an annual summer party
- Spring Health access to 12 therapy and 12 coaching sessions
- 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
- Hybrid schedule with in-person work three days per week
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.