Perk
SaaS
StaffSoftwareEngineer-Flights
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“Staff Software Engineer - Flights at Perk. Skills: Technical vision, Hands-on contribution, Mentoring engineers, Cross-team coordination. Own technical vision across teams. Coordinate shared technical direction”
What You'll Achieve.
Move needle for customers daily; Deliver seamless customer experience; Achieve core platform reliability; Achieve self-serve post-booking; Achieve booking error recovery; Achieve airline inventory scaling; Deliver impact
Industry & Context.
Solve complex problems; Problem ownership
Relocation assistance available
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Product engineering mindset, Cross-team technical leadership, Architectural judgment, Backend-heavy, full-stack comfortable, Operational maturity, Mentorship and influence, AI-driven development
Nice to Have
Experience in flights or travel domain, Experience in fintech domain, Experience in industries with messy, constrained underlying systems
What You'll Do.
Own technical vision across teams
Coordinate shared technical direction
Contribute to annual/quarterly plans
Translate plans into priorities
Work with dependent teams
Turn business goals into engineering approaches
Propose annual objectives
Identify architectural changes
Raise bar for engineers
Support engineers through mentorship
Explain technical complexity
Lead across boundaries
Coordinate across squads
Drive alignment across organization
Connect dots for dependencies
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product team; Work with design team; Work with operations team; Collaborate with product managers; Collaborate with engineering managers; Collaborate with other engineers; Impactful collaboration; Work alongside product; Work alongside design; Work alongside operations; Collaborate with stakeholders; Align stakeholders
Communication Scope
Explain technical complexity to business
Process & Methodology
Manage dependencies, Longer-horizon project management
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 THRIVES ON REAL OWNERSHIP? At Perk, we know that we feel most fulfilled when we can own the problem and the solution. This means taking responsibility for the entire lifecycle of a feature, from being part in understanding what our customers' pains are with our product team, design documents, coding to deployment, and measuring impact. You will see how your technical decisions move the needle for our customers daily. We prioritize autonomy and pragmatism, giving you the space to solve complex problems without unnecessary friction
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