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. 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. Are you a Software Engineer who thrives on real ownership? 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. Engineering excellence here is measured by the reliability and simplicity of the systems you build to power a integral platform. You'll be working across mission-driven teams tackling core platform reliability, self-serve post-booking, booking error recovery, and airline inventory scaling. Each team has real ownership of its domain, a genuine say in what gets built, and the autonomy to make it happen. We care about impact, and we trust our people to deliver it. 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. The bar is understanding your code and owning what you produce. What it means to be a staff engineer at Perk Staff engineers at Perk are mostly hands‐on — spending the majority of their time actively contributing within one or two teams, and the rest mentoring engineers, unblocking delivery, and working with dependent teams to move shared projects forward.



You'll take higher‐level business goals and turn them into engineering approaches. That means proposing the shape of annual objectives, identifying architectural changes needed for scale, and making sure the team is investing its energy where it counts most — not just staying busy. Raise the bar for everyone around you. You'll support engineers through direct mentorship, design reviews, and pairing. Product engineering mindset: you work end to end — from understanding customer problems alongside product, through to deployment and measuring impact. Cross‐team technical leadership: proven experience coordinating significant, multi‐team technical initiatives where you've had to manage dependencies, align stakeholders, and keep a longer‐horizon project moving. ~ You build it, you run it"

experience:
you've run your own services — monitoring, testing, rolling out, and operating them in production. Backend‐heavy, full‐stack comfortable: our stack is roughly 80% backend, 20% frontend. You should be comfortable across both, with the depth in backend systems. We use Python and AWS; AI‐driven development: experience with — or a strong interest in — modern AI‐augmented workflows, including agentic coding and AI‐assisted code review. In practice, that means using AI to research and prioritise accounts, draft and refine outreach, handle customer interactions more effectively, synthesise information, and cut through shadow work
- the invisible tasks that pull people away from the work only they can do
- so you can focus on relationships and outcomes. At Perk, we take an IRL‐first approach to work, where our team works together in‐person 3 days a week. 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. Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that.

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 AmTrav
📍 Barcelona