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Senior Software Engineer - Boston

Perk · Boston · On-site

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About Perk

Perk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking. Backed by General Catalyst and SoftBank VF.

About the role

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, fintech, 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.

What they're looking for

  • Product Leadership: Translates complex business goals into technical roadmaps, de-risks ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping
  • System Architecture: Architects scalable, evolvable systems and data models that account for performance, failure isolation, and long-term maintenance
  • Technical Standards: Defines and upholds engineering excellence, including CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards across the stack
  • Frontend Strategy: Establishes 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: Leads observability and SRE practices, defines SLOs, manages incident responses, and conducts blameless post-mortems
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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, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we're on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We're trusted by more than 12,000 companies worldwide, including Bolt, GoCardless, 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, fintech, and SaaS industries, representing...

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