Platform Engineering Manager

About Perk

Perk (formerly Travel Perk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. 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.

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  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. Visit  to learn more.

The Platform function at Perk builds the foundations that the rest of the company depends on. We own the shared infrastructure, core services, and developer tooling that enable product teams to move fast without breaking things. Our work is often behind the scenes, but its impact is everywhere: reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience. We solve hard, systemic problems, make deliberate trade-offs, and hold ourselves accountable for the long-term health of the platform.

If you care about leverage, clean abstractions, and building things other engineers actually enjoy using, you’ll feel at home here.

As an Engineering Manager in the Platform function at Perk, you’ll lead teams responsible for the technical foundations of the company. Your job is to maximise impact through people and systems: setting direction, prioritising the right problems, and ensuring the platform evolves in a way that enables product teams rather than blocking them. This is not a delivery-first role. You’ll balance short-term demands with long-term platform health, push back when needed, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work.

You’ll be accountable for reliability, developer experience, and sustainable execution—while growing a team that thinks in terms of leverage and ownership.

• Being accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s)
• Acting as servant leader to your engineers and adapting your leadership style to the needs of the situation
• Taking care of individuals' performance in the organisation and supporting their journey and ownership of their career using coaching and mentoring where appropriate
• Act as a technical champion, ensuring that the team has the time and context to build systems that meet the needs and standards of our organisation
• Enabling fluent and effective collaboration within the team, and supporting them through challenges in system architecture, design or implementation
• Develop and evolve a long-term strategy and roadmap for the team, working with the Product Manager and aligned with the Tribe mission
• Strategic team building and planning for delivering highly available features that scale with our growth
• Being a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team
• Working with the business and team metrics to deliver a 7 star experience to our customers
• An understanding of how engineering impacts product and business needs
• Providing feedback to stakeholders within Builders (Product and Eng) and sometimes the wider business

• You have established experience managing software engineers
• For this role, we’re looking for someone who has managed (and will continue to) around 8-10 software engineers
• You come from a technical background - ideally in software engineering, where…