Staff Software Engineer

The role

A Staff Software Engineer will own the technical vision across multiple teams and coordinate shared technical direction. You will be hands-on, contributing to one or two teams while mentoring engineers and shaping engineering approaches to meet business goals.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision across teams
• Coordinate a shared technical direction and contribute to annual and quarterly plans
• Actively contribute to one or two teams as a hands-on engineer
• Mentor engineers, unblock delivery, and work with dependent teams
• Turn high-level business goals into engineering approaches
• Propose annual objectives and identify architectural changes for scale
• Support engineers through direct mentorship, design reviews, and pairing
• Explain technical complexity to the wider business
• Coordinate across squads and drive alignment across the broader organisation

Required qualifications

• Product engineering mindset
• Cross-team technical leadership
• Architectural judgment
• You build it, you run it experience
• Experience working in a domain with significant underlying complexity
• Backend-heavy, full-stack comfortable
• Operational maturity
• Mentorship and influence
• AI-driven development

Nice to have

• Experience in flights or travel, fintech, or industries with messy, constrained underlying systems

Before you apply

• Must be based within commuting distance of hubs
• Submit resume in English
• Submit an updated portfolio and/or resume
• Candidates are expected to use AI tools in coding interviews

About the company

Perk is an intelligent platform for travel and spend management. It is a global company of more than 1,800 people with headquarters in London and Boston.