Staff Software Engineer - Boston

The role

You will own the technical vision across teams and coordinate shared technical direction. You will be a hands-on engineer contributing to one or two teams while mentoring others and shaping engineering approaches for business goals.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision across teams
• Coordinate a shared technical direction across multiple teams
• Contribute to annual and quarterly plans with product and engineering managers
• Actively contribute to one or two teams as a hands-on engineer
• Mentor engineers, unblock delivery, and work with dependent teams
• Turn 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 organisation

Required qualifications

• Proven experience coordinating significant, multi-team technical initiatives
• Ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and articulate a technical roadmap
• Experience running your own services including monitoring, testing, and operating in production
• Experience working in a domain with significant underlying complexity
• Comfortable with both frontend and backend, full-stack
• Depth in backend systems
• Experience leading observability and reliability practices
• Track record of levelling up engineers through mentorship and design reviews

Nice to have

• Experience in flights or travel, fintech, or industries with messy, constrained underlying systems
• Experience with Python and AWS
• Experience with modern AI-augmented workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted code review

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity ownership
• 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays
• Three medical plans with company contributions and HSA option
• Dental, vision and Wellhub’s gym subscription
• Life and disability policies
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions
• Partner discounts on pet insurance
• Annual summer party
• Access to Spring Health therapy and coaching
• 12-16 weeks’ paid parental leave
• 16 paid hours per year for volunteering
• Up to 20 Work from Anywhere days per year

Before you apply

• Must be based within commuting distance of hubs
• Relocation support available for certain roles
• Submit resume in English
• Submit an updated portfolio and/or resume

About the company

Perk is an intelligent platform for travel and spend management that automates manual work. It is a global company with more than 1,800 people across 12 offices.