Senior Software Engineer
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Area, EH1, Scotland, UK
Listed on 2025-11-29
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Senior Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software
About Us
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 Fableics, 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 at work.
At 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.
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Are you a Senior Software Engineer with extensive programming experience?
We’re not looking for stack experts. We’re looking for smart people who can bring in the best tools and processes to get the job done.
You will work on a day-to-day basis with our product team to design, architect and implement our product. Perk is a next-generation platform to take the pain out of booking and managing business travel.
As a Senior Software Engineer, this position involves:- Product development in Python/Django and/or React of a travel-related web-based product
- Integrations between our product to 3rd party APIs
- System architecture design, implementation, and testing
- Work in an Agile environment with strong attention to a well-documented code, unit testing, and continuous integration
- Being able to mentor, coach, and train other colleagues as a domain expert
- "Product Engineering" mindset
- Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance
- Extensive experience in similar roles building technically complex products in any web programming language
- An expert level at server-side
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client-side or full stack development
. Your final role within the team will depend on your skills and internal training will be provided - Obsession for quality and testing
- Eager to learn new technologies and frameworks
- Strong communication skills
- Experience using AI coding tools during development process, such as copilot, cline or similar
- Experience building AI backed product features using AWS, GCP or OpenAI platforms
- Experience in the travel industry
- Dev Ops experience with the AWS suite
- Experience working with high-performing, Agile development teams
- People who like to build stuff (we really like people who maintain/contribute to open source projects)
💰 A competitive compensation package, including equity options in Perk;
🌴 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays;
💼 Company Pension Plan with Aviva;
💊 Private medical insurance from Bupa;
🙌 Life insurance with Zurich;
🧘 Income Protection + Wellbeing App with Unum;
🦷 Access to voluntary dental insurance through Bupa;
🚲 Tax-efficient schemes such as Cycle2
Work & electric car leasing via Octopus;
💪 Discounts on 12-month gym memberships with Gym Flex;
💙Spring Health - Get access to 12x therapy & 12x coaching sessions per year! - a mental health support tool with access to therapists year round;
🎟️ Access to a wide variety of discounts and rewards;
🥳 Unforgettable Perk events, including our spectacular annual summer party;
👶 Parental leave: 12 to 16 weeks, based on eligibility factors;
🫶 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice;
🌎 A ’Work from anywhere’ in the world allowance of 20 working days per year.
📈 Exponential growth opportunities
How We WorkAt Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to…
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