2 months ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$174k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own 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 one or two teams while mentoring engineers, conducting design reviews, pairing, and unblocking delivery.
- Design scalable, evolvable systems and define architectural changes and technical roadmaps.
- Lead multi-team initiatives, coordinate dependencies, and drive alignment across engineering squads.
- Build and operate customer-facing services in production, including monitoring, testing, rollouts, incident handling, SLOs, and post-mortems.
- Translate business goals into engineering approaches and communicate technical complexity to the wider business.
- Support AI-augmented development workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted code review.
Requirements
- Experience owning end-to-end product engineering problems from customer understanding through deployment and impact measurement.
- Proven experience coordinating significant multi-team technical initiatives and managing dependencies and stakeholders.
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to design scalable systems and articulate technical roadmaps.
- Experience running services in production and leading observability and reliability practices.
- Experience in complex domains such as travel, flights, fintech, or other constrained underlying systems.
- Full-stack comfort across frontend and backend development, with greater depth in backend systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers through mentorship, design reviews, pairing, and technical leadership.
- Experience with, or strong interest in, modern AI-augmented engineering workflows.
- Ability to work within commuting distance of a Perk hub and attend the office three days per week.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation and equity ownership.
- 20 vacation days, 12 public holidays, and up to 20 Work from Anywhere days per year.
- 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 with optional voluntary buy-up plans.
- 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
- Pet insurance partner discounts and Perk company events.
- Spring Health benefits including 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.
- Four-week fully paid sabbatical after five years.
- Relocation support to one of Perk’s hubs.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three in-person days per week near 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.