# Senior Software Engineer - Boston at Perk

- Company: Perk
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.perk.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Boston
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perk/23477eaa-3b34-4c94-b70a-60c88f53f004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perk-senior-software-engineer-boston/

## 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

Tags: Engineering