Staff 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.

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. Each team has real ownership of its domain, a genuine say in what gets built, and the autonomy to make it happen. We care about impact, and we trust our people to deliver it.

What it Means to be a Staff Engineer at Perk

You'll own the technical vision across teams, work across multiple teams to coordinate a shared technical direction, be hands-on, with purpose, shape how we work, not just what we build, raise the bar for everyone around you, lead across boundaries, and more.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Product engineering mindset: you work end to end — from understanding customer problems alongside product, through to deployment and measuring impact.
• Proven experience coordinating significant, multi-team technical initiatives where you've had to manage dependencies, align stakeholders, and keep a longer-horizon project moving.
• Ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and articulate a clear technical roadmap — balancing long-term thinking with pragmatic, near-term delivery.
• Experience running your own services — monitoring, testing, rolling out, and operating them in production.
• Experience working in a domain with significant underlying complexity — ideally flights or travel, but also fintech or any industry where you've had to build reliable, customer-facing products on top of messy, constrained underlying systems.
• Backend-heavy, full-stack comfortable: our stack is roughly 80% backend, 20% frontend. You should be comfortable across both, with the depth in backend systems.
• Experience leading observability and reliability practices; defining SLOs, handling incidents, and conducting blameless post-mortems.
• A track record of levelling up engineers around you through mentorship, design reviews, and by modelling what great engineering looks like.
• Experience with — or a strong interest in — modern AI-augmented workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted code review.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options.
• Medical, dental, vision, and wellness benefits.
• Relocation support for certain roles.
• Voluntary buy-up plans for life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
• Parental leave and volunteer time off.
• Discounts on pet insurance and community service opportunities.
• Unlimited "Work from Anywhere" days.
• Annual sabbatical.

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $174,000 - $205,000 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

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.