Senior Software Engineer - Financial Platform

Senior Software Engineer – Financial Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Platform team, you’ll help build systems that ensure Perk’s financial data is accurate, traceable, and audit‑ready. You’ll expand the platform to support increasingly complex financial flows, focusing on building reliable reconciliation and reporting systems that operate automatically and ’ll design and implement durable solutions that improve the integrity and transparency of our financial infrastructure, translate and untangle complex business logic across our ERP integrations, and ensure every transaction moving through Perk is correctly represented across systems.

• Expand the platform to support complex financial flows.
• Build reliable reconciliation and reporting systems at scale.
• Design durable solutions that improve financial infrastructure integrity.
• Translate and untangle complex business logic across ERP integrations.
• Enhance auditability and transparency of financial data across systems.

• 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/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards across the stack.
• Frontend Strategy: Establishes frontend architecture patterns, including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive testing (e.g., E2E/Cypress).
• 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.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.