Perk
SaaS
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-CardsExperienceEU
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“Senior Software Engineer - Cards Experience EU at Perk. Skills: Cards experience, Spend domain, Banking integrations, Complex fund flows. Build core card spending experience. Evolve core card spending experience”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver complex initiatives; Drive strategic projects; Deliver with quality; Deliver with pace; Achieve long-term sustainability; Achieve long-term maintainability; See technical decisions move needle; Solve problems without friction; Build reliable systems; Build simple systems; Invest energy where counts
Industry & Context.
Problem solving
Based within commuting distance
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience, Experience working in complex transactional systems, Comfortable picking up complexity fast
Nice to Have
Deep prior expertise in payments, Deep prior expertise in financial systems
What You'll Do.
Build core card spending experience
Evolve core card spending experience
Write production code
Shape technical designs
Contribute to technical direction
Navigate specialised domain
Balance delivery needs
Balance platform sustainability
Balance platform maintainability
Take responsibility for lifecycle
Understand customer pains
Solve complex problems
Build reliable systems
Focus on problem itself
Contribute to squad goals
Contribute to long-term vision
Write design documents
Manage technical debt
Communicate complex ideas
Identify who needs involved
Drive alignment across organisation
Coordinate cross-squad initiative
Contribute to engineering guilds
Define engineering excellence
Uphold engineering excellence
Define testing strategies
Define coding standards
Establish frontend architecture
Manage performance budgets
Engineer backend solutions
Plan complex data migration
Manage incident responses
Conduct blameless post-mortems
Oversee operational security
Manage dependency risk
Level up engineering organization
Influence product roadmap
Coordinate multi-team deliverables
Resolve technical blockers
Leverage agentic workflows
Develop custom agentic skills
Utilize AI-powered code reviews
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional partners; Cross-functional squad; Multiple European hubs; Engineering guilds
Communication Scope
Communicate complex ideas
Process & Methodology
Roadmap 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 a Senior Software Engineer on the Cards Experience EU team, you'll be a key technical contributor in building and evolving the core card spending experience within the Spend domain. You'll work alongside a team of experienced engineers across multiple European hubs, collaborating closely with staff engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver complex, high-impact initiatives in a fast-moving environment. The team is currently focused on several urgent strategic projects, and you'll play a hands-on role in driving them forward — writing production code,
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