Perk

SaaS

EngineeringManager-CardsExperienceEU

Barcelona, Spain FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid candidates.

The Brief

“Engineering Manager - Cards Experience EU at Perk. Skills: Engineering management, People leadership, Technical strategy, Team development. Accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s). Act as servant leader to your engineers”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver a 7 star experience to our customers; Ensure financial integrity; Build a solid, reliable financial bedrock ready for any audit; Ensure reconciliation and reporting happen both automatically and accurately; Ensure that everything sold and bought from Perk flows correctly through our systems; Give Finance partners confidence that the numbers are right, every single time

Industry & Context.

SaaS
Problems you'll solve

Act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally; Helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineering fellows to perform at their best

Eligibility Requirements

Relocation assistance available for certain roles

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5-8 years of experience managing software engineers, Managed (and will continue to) around 8-10 software engineers, Technical background, ideally in software engineering, where you were a hands-on IC, People manager who builds an effective work culture that improves the working lives of your team, Experience managing larger teams where it's necessary to build processes and systems of delegation to get work done, Act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally, Run effective performance reviews that celebrate achievements and help your team identify where to grow next, Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance, Ability to adapt and react fast to an ever-changing environment, Based within commuting distance of our hubs

Nice to Have

Experience with financial platforms, Experience with complex financial flows, Experience with reconciliation and reporting, Experience untangling complex business logic from ERPs, Experience ensuring that everything sold and bought flows correctly through systems

What You'll Do.

Accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s)

Act as servant leader to your engineers

Adapt leadership style to the needs of the situation

Take care of individuals' performance in the organisation

Support engineers' journey and ownership of their career

Act as a technical champion

Ensure team has time and context to build systems that meet needs and standards

Enable fluent and effective collaboration within the team

Support team through challenges in system architecture

design or implementation

Develop and evolve a long-term strategy and roadmap for the team

Strategic team building and planning for delivering highly available features that scale

Key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team

Work with business and team metrics to deliver a 7 star experience to customers

Build a financial bedrock that is solid

and ready for any audit

Focus on expanding product to support complex financial flows

Ensure reconciliation and reporting happen both automatically and accurately

Untangle complex business logic from ERPs

Serve as a reference for ensuring that everything sold and bought from Perk flows correctly through systems

Build a team culture where engineers take pride in building code and leading through the value of auditability

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Enabling fluent and effective collaboration within the team; Working with the Product Manager; Collaboration with Finance partners

Communication Scope

Providing feedback to stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Developing and evolving a long-term strategy and roadmap, Strategic team building and planning

Full Job Description

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 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 http://www.perk.com/shadow-work-report. 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 http://www.perk.com to learn more. As the Engineering Manager for the Financial Platform, you will be the custodian of Perk's financial integrity. You will lead the team in building a financial bedrock that is solid, reliable, and ready for any audit. Instead of patching things up, you'll focus on expanding our product to support complex financial flows, ensuring our reconciliation and reporting happen both automatically and accurately. Your guidance will help the team untangle complex business logic from our ERPs, serving as a reference for ensuring that everything sold and bought from Perk flo

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