Senior Software Engineer - Cards Experience EU

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time strained, 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.

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.

Senior Software Engineer - Cards Experience EU

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, shaping technical designs, and helping the team execute with quality and pace. You'll contribute to the technical direction of the platform and help navigate a highly specialised domain that includes card infrastructure, banking integrations, and complex flows of funds, balancing immediate delivery needs with long term platform sustainability and maintainability.

You don't need deep prior expertise in payments or financial systems - but you'll be comfortable picking up complexity fast. Experience working in complex transactional systems will serve you well here.

You'll bring strong technical judgement, a bias for pragmatic solutions, and a genuine interest in the reliability and scalability of systems that customers across Europe depend on every day.

Why Join

We prioritize autonomy and pragmatism, giving you the space to solve complex problems without unnecessary friction. Engineering excellence here is measured by the reliability and simplicity of the systems you build to power a global platform.

How we work

At Perk, we believe the best work happens when great people come together in small teams, with a shared sense of purpose. You'll join a cross functional squad where you have real ownership of a part of Perk's domain, a genuine say in what gets built, and the autonomy to make it happen. Each team decides how to contribute to Perk's company goals. We care about impact, and we trust our people to deliver it.

AI at Perk

AI is embedded in how we work and what we build. On the engineering side, it spans the whole workflow: our Notion, Jira, GitHub, and Slack are AI connected so you get up to speed fast, and day to day it helps with specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review on every pull request. When something goes wrong in production, AI surfaces context across systems quickly. We also embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator, not just a prompt by prompt co pilot.

We expect candidates to use AI tools in our coding interviews. The bar is understanding your code and owning what you produce. That reflects how we work every day.

Examples of what it means to be a Senior at Perk

• Shape the bigger picture. You won't just build features, you'll refine the what to build and why. At Perk, senior engineers are expected to go beyond the technical solution and focus on the problem itself. You'll contribute to your squad's quarterly goals and long term vision alongside your Product Manager and Engineering Manager.
• Architect for today and tomorrow. When a big change is needed in how our platform works, you'll be the one writing the design documents that lay the foundation. You'll become a guardian of your team's technical quality; spotting areas of investment, proactively managing technical debt, and making sure we don't let busy work crowd out the work that truly matters. At Perk, we believe in impact over effort: our customers see results, not the hours behind them. Your job is to make sure we're always investing our energy where it counts most.
• Lead across boundaries. Your influence won't stop at your own squad. You'll communicate complex ideas across multiple teams, proactively identify who needs to be involved, and drive alignment across the broader organisation. Whether it's coordinating a cross squad initiative, contributing to one of our engineering guilds, or pairing with architects on solution discovery, you'll operate comfortably beyond your immediate team.
• Raise the bar for everyone around you. Senior engineers at Perk are mentors, coaches, and bar raisers. You'll support less experienced colleagues through direct mentorship, thoughtful feedback during reviews, and by modelling what great engineering looks like in practice. You'll help Engineering Managers understand where the team needs to grow technically, and you'll use spaces like guild meetings, design doc reviews, and pairing sessions to lift the overall standard. At Perk, we are a team; the team's success is your success.

Desired skills and experience

• Product Leadership: Translates complex business goals into technical roadmaps; de risks ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping.
• System Architecture: Architects scalable, evolvable systems and data models that account for performance, failure isolation, and long term maintenance.
• Technical Standards: Defines and upholds engineering excellence, including CI/CDE optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards across the stack.
• Frontend Strategy: Establishes frontend architecture patterns, including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing.
• Backend Excellence: Engineers sophisticated backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migration plans.
• Operational Maturity: Leads observability and SRE practices; defines SLOs, manages incident responses, and conducts blameless post mortems.
• Security & Risk: Oversees operational security, including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management, to ensure a hardened production environment.
• Mentorship & Influence: Levels up the engineering organization through active mentorship, leading design reviews, and influencing the product roadmap with technical data.
• Cross Functional Impact: Coordinates multi team deliverables and aligns stakeholders to resolve technical blockers across the organization.
• AI Driven Development: Experience with-or a strong interest in-modern AI augmented workflows. This includes leveraging agentic workflows, developing custom agentic skills to extend AI capabilities, and utilizing AI powered code reviews.

Work Location and Benefits

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world. English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. We ask you to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

We are an equal opportunity employer; we welcome everyone regardless of how you look, where you're from, or anything else that makes you unique.