2 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape product goals, technical roadmaps, and long-term engineering vision with Product and Engineering Managers.
- Design scalable, evolvable systems and data models with attention to performance, failure isolation, and maintainability.
- Define frontend architecture patterns, state management, performance budgets, and end-to-end testing strategies.
- Build backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migrations.
- Lead observability and SRE practices, define SLOs, manage incident responses, and conduct blameless post-mortems.
- Oversee operational security, secrets hygiene, and dependency risk management.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, uphold technical standards, and coordinate cross-team deliverables.
Requirements
- Senior-level software engineering experience with the ability to architect scalable and maintainable systems.
- Ability to translate complex business goals into technical roadmaps and de-risk ambiguous projects through prototyping.
- Experience with frontend architecture, state management, performance optimization, and comprehensive testing such as Cypress.
- Experience with backend architecture, API versioning, caching, and complex data migration planning.
- Experience with observability, SRE practices, SLOs, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and align stakeholders across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity ownership.
- 20 vacation days, 12 public holidays, and up to 20 Work from Anywhere days per year.
- Three medical plans with company contributions, plus dental, vision, Wellhub gym subscription, life, and disability coverage.
- 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and pet insurance discounts.
- 12-16 weeks of paid parental leave and 16 paid volunteer hours per year.
- Four-week fully paid sabbatical after five years and relocation support to Perk hubs.
- Hybrid arrangement requiring employees to work in person three days per week and live within commuting distance of a hub.
Tech Stack
Cypress
Categories
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.