Perk
SaaS
EngineeringManager-PaymentsPlatform
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“Engineering Manager - Payments Platform at Perk. Skills: Managing software engineers, Team development, Technical leadership, Payments platform infrastructure. Delivery and personal development of your team(s). Acting as servant leader to your engineers”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver a 7 star experience to our customers
Industry & Context.
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
Based within commuting distance of our hubs, 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, Experience managing larger teams where it's necessary to build processes and systems of delegation to get work done, Experience with—or a interest in—modern AI-augmented workflows, Driving your team to leverage agentic workflows, Develop custom agentic skills to extend AI capabilities
Nice to Have
Experience with AI-Driven Development
What You'll Do.
Delivery and personal development of your team(s)
Acting as servant leader to your engineers
Taking care of individuals' performance
Supporting their journey and ownership of their career
Acting as a technical champion
Ensuring the team has the time and context to build systems
Enabling fluent and effective collaboration within the team
Supporting them 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
Working with the business and team metrics to deliver a 7 star experience
Providing feedback to stakeholders
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Enabling fluent and effective collaboration within the team; Providing feedback to stakeholders within Builders (Product and Eng) and sometimes the wider business
Process & Methodology
Develop and evolve a long-term strategy and roadmap for the team, Strategic team building and planning for delivering highly available features that scale with our growth
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. At Perk, we're building the financial backbone of the world's most-used business travel and spend platform. Every booking, every reimbursement, every card transaction flows through the infrastructure our Payments Inbound and Outbound Platform teams own. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to shape what that infrastructure becomes next. This is a genuinely broad scope: from PSP integrations and payments orchestration to credit card issuing, fraud prevention, and the reconciliation systems that keep our financial data airtight. You'll be working at the inter
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