Perk
SaaS
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-Payments
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“Senior Software Engineer - Payments at Perk. Skills: Payments Experience, System Architecture, AI-Driven Development. Own the payment experience. Build systems for real money movement”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver 7-star travel experience; Ensure correctness of real money movement; Improve customer perception of Perk; Improve business efficiency; Raise the bar for engineering organization
Industry & Context.
De-risk ambiguous projects; Identify where to harden; Identify where to simplify; Identify where to invest
Based within commuting distance of hubs, Relocation assistance available, Resume in English, Portfolio/resume submission
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Senior Engineer, Payments Experience squad ownership, Build systems for real money movement, End-to-end scope, Think in systems, Care about quality, Work closely with product and design, Work with finance-focused PMs, Work with broader payments group, Contribute to payments roadmap, Write design documents for payment systems, Build financial state machines, Guardian of payment system quality, Coordinate cross-squad deliverables, Align stakeholders on payment architecture decisions, Contribute to engineering guilds, Lead production incident response, Mentor colleagues in payments engineering patterns, Model great financial system design, Give thoughtful feedback in design reviews, Understand high bar for reliability and clarity for CFO-facing products, Product Leadership, System Architecture, Technical Standards, Full-Stack Pragmatism, Operational Maturity, Security & Risk, Mentorship & Influence, Cross-Functional Impact, AI-Driven Development
Nice to Have
Experience with modern AI-augmented workflows, Leveraging agentic workflows, Developing custom agentic skills, Utilizing AI-powered code reviews
What You'll Do.
Own the payment experience
Build systems for real money movement
Shape customer-facing payment layer
Build fintech add-ons
Shape pricing presentation
Handle refund processes
Shape internal team workflows
Contribute to payments roadmap
Define payment flow implementation
Evolve payments experience
Write design documents
Build financial state machines
Guard payment system quality
Identify areas to harden
Identify areas to simplify
Identify areas to invest
Coordinate cross-squad deliverables
Align stakeholders on architecture
Contribute to engineering guilds
Lead production incident response
Model financial system design
Give feedback in design reviews
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with product and design; Work with finance-focused PMs; Work with broader payments group; Coordinate cross-squad deliverables; Align stakeholders; Contribute to engineering guilds; Work as one team
Communication Scope
Align stakeholders; Give thoughtful feedback
Process & Methodology
Kanban cycles, Standups, Planning, Refinements, Retros
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 WANTS TO OWN THE PAYMENT EXPERIENCE THAT THOUSANDS OF CFOS AND TRAVELLERS RELY ON EVERY DAY? At Perk, our Payments Experience squad owns the customer-facing layer of our payments product — how travellers and financial controllers set up payment methods, pay, receive refunds and credits, and access fintech add-ons. You’ll build the systems that handle real money movement for 10,000+ companies, where correctness isn’t optional and the end-user experience directly shapes how customers feel about Perk. The Payments Experience team ow
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