Perk
SaaS
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-IdentityExperience(Acquisition)
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“Senior Software Engineer - Identity Experience (Acquisition) at Perk. Skills: Integration engineering, System architecture, Backend development, Observability. Own user provisioning. Own identity integration domain”
What You'll Achieve.
Keep workforce data accurate; Keep employees unblocked; Onboard enterprise customers faster; Reduce friction; Reduce surprises
Industry & Context.
Find complexity compelling; Translate complex business goals; De-risk ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping; Account for eventual consistency; Account for third-party API instability; Account for wide variety of data models; Proactively managing technical debt; Manage incident response
Based within commuting distance of hubs, Relocation assistance available, English is the official language
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Integration engineering, SCIM 2.0 provisioning, HRIS integrations, User lifecycle management, Calendar service, Reliable pipelines, Fault-tolerant pipelines, Enterprise customer data accuracy, System architecture, Scalable systems, Evolvable systems, Data models, Eventual consistency, Third-party API instability, Data models across HRIS vendors, Integration reliability, Technical debt management, Connector layer, API Design, Platform Thinking, Integration APIs, Backend Excellence, Background job processing, State management, Distributed systems, Data normalisation, Inconsistent third-party schemas, Complex migration plans, Operational Maturity, Observability practices, Structured logging, Alerting on sync failures, Customer-facing error messaging, SLOs, Incident response, Sync issues, Technical Standards, Engineering excellence, CI/CD, Testing strategies, Integration testing, Contract testing, Coding standards, Mentorship, Design reviews, Observability, Fault-tolerance, Third-party APIs, AI-augmented workflows, Agentic coding
Nice to Have
Experience with AI tools in coding interviews
What You'll Do.
Own user provisioning
Own identity integration domain
Shape integration design
Maintain integrations
Contribute to roadmap
Evolve integration platform
Write design documents
Manage technical debt
Drive alignment across squads
Contribute to engineering guilds
Engage with enterprise customers
Give feedback in design reviews
Model fault-tolerance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with enterprise customers; Work with Identity Core squad; Work with customer success team; Lead across boundaries; Drive alignment across squads; Contribute to engineering guilds; Engage directly with enterprise customers; Mentor colleagues; Give thoughtful feedback in design reviews
Communication Scope
Customer-facing error messaging
Process & Methodology
Translate complex business goals, De-risk ambiguous projects
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. Are you a Software Engineer who finds the complexity in integration engineering compelling rather than frustrating? At Perk, our Identity Experience squad owns how users get into Perk and stay in sync. Your work will span SCIM 2.0 provisioning, HRIS integrations (BambooHR, Workday, Merge.dev http://Merge.dev and more), user lifecycle management, and our calendar service. You’ll build the reliable, fault-tolerant pipelines that enterprise customers depend on to keep their workforce data accurate and their employees unblocked from day one. You’ll own these system
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