# Staff 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: $174K to $205K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perk/f6e364cd-882d-43c8-bb3f-ba3bc9bc0ef5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perk-staff-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 engineering mindset: you work end to end — from understanding customer problems alongside product, through to deployment and measuring impact. Technical skill alone isn't enough, you need to be able to own a problem fully
- Cross-team technical leadership: proven experience coordinating significant, multi-team technical initiatives where you've had to manage dependencies, align stakeholders, and keep a longer-horizon project moving
- Architectural judgment: ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and articulate a clear technical roadmap — balancing long-term thinking with pragmatic, near-term delivery
- “You build it, you run it” experience: you've run your own services — monitoring, testing, rolling out, and operating them in production. The tools may differ, the mindset shouldn't
- Domain complexity: 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
- Operational maturity: experience leading observability and reliability practices, defining SLOs, handling incidents, and conducting blameless post-mortems

Tags: Engineering