Senior Software Engineer - Boston

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erases morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem. Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work. At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team. Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions
• Pet insurance
• Volunteering opportunities
• Parental leave
• Community involvement
• Relocation support
• Up to 20 "Work from Anywhere" days per year

Senior Software Engineer Role

You'll play a central role in a new product launch as Perk continues its expansion - a rare chance to shape something from the ground up. You'll shape the bigger picture, architect for today and tomorrow, lead across boundaries, and raise the bar for everyone around you. You'll be responsible for:

• Shaping the bigger picture: Refining the what to build and why, contributing to your squad's quarterly goals and long-term vision alongside your Product Manager and Engineering Manager.
• Architecting scalable, evolvable systems: Writing design documents that lay the foundation for big changes in how our platform works.
• Ensuring technical excellence: Managing technical debt, optimizing CI/CD, defining testing strategies, and enforcing coding standards across the stack.
• Frontend strategy: Establishing frontend architecture patterns, including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing.
• Backend excellence: Engineering sophisticated backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migration plans.
• Operational maturity: Leading observability and SRE practices, defining SLOs, managing incident responses, and conducting blameless post-mortems.
• Security & Risk: Overseeing operational security, including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management, to ensure a hardened production environment.
• Mentorship & Influence: Lifting the overall standard through active mentorship, leading design reviews, and influencing the product roadmap with technical data.
• Cross-functional impact: Coordinating multi-team deliverables and aligning stakeholders to resolve technical blockers across the organization.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Product Leadership: Translating complex business goals into technical roadmaps; de-risking ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping.
• System Architecture: Architecting scalable, evolvable systems and data models that account for performance, failure isolation, and long-term maintenance.
• Tech Standards: Defining and upholding engineering excellence, including CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards across the stack.
• Frontend Strategy: Establishing frontend architecture patterns, including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing (e.g., E2E/Cypress).
• Backend Excellence: Engineers sophisticated backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migration plans.
• Operational Maturity: Leading observability and SRE practices; defining SLOs, managing incident responses, and conducting blameless post-mortems.
• Security & Risk: Oversees operational security, including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management, to ensure a hardened production environment.
• Mentorship & Influence: Levels up the engineering organization through active mentorship, leading design reviews, and influencing the product roadmap with technical data.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Coordinates multi-team deliverables and aligns stakeholders to resolve technical blockers across the organization.

How We Work

At Perk, we believe the best work happens when great people come together in small teams, with a shared sense of purpose. You'll join a cross-functional squad where you have real ownership of a piece of Perk’s domains, a genuine say in what gets built, and the autonomy to make it happen. Each team decides how to contribute to Perk’s company goals.

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $140,000 - $170,000 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on specific qualifications, experience, and other job-related factors.

AI at Perk

AI is embedded in how we work and what we build. It spans the whole workflow: our Notion, Jira, GitHub, and Slack are AI-connected so you get up to speed fast, and day-to-day it helps with specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review on every pull request. When something goes wrong in production, AI surfaces context across systems quickly. We also embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator, not just a prompt-by-prompt co-pilot.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity, and ultimately making us a great place to work. For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume. Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you. Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.