Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer

Overview

Perk is growing its engineering footprint in North America, and we're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us do it right. You'll play a central role in a new product launch as Perk continues its expansion - a rare chance to shape something from the ground up.

How we work:

At Perk, we believe the best work happens when great people come together in small teams with a shared sense of purpose. Each team has real ownership of its domain, a genuine say in what gets built, and the autonomy to make it happen. We care about impact, and we trust our people to deliver it.

• Own the technical vision across teams.
• Work across multiple teams to coordinate a shared technical direction, contributing to annual and quarterly plans in collaboration with product managers, engineering managers, and other engineers — translating that into clear, actionable priorities for teams today.
• Be hands-on, with purpose.
• Staff engineers are mostly hands-on — spending the majority of their time actively contributing within one or two teams, and the rest mentoring engineers, unblocking delivery, and working with dependent teams to move shared projects forward.
• Shape how we work, not just what we build.
• Turn high-level business goals into engineering approaches, propose the shape of annual objectives, identify architectural changes needed for scale, and ensure the team invests energy where it counts most.
• Raise the bar for everyone around you.
• Mentor and influence: provide direct mentorship, design reviews, and pairing; explain technical complexity to the wider business; help the team level up their skills to apply them to the domain.
• Coordinate across squads, contribute to engineering initiatives, and drive alignment across the broader organisation; connect dependencies and blockers across teams.

• Product engineering mindset: you work end to end — from understanding customer problems alongside product, through deployment and measuring impact.
• Cross-team technical leadership: experience coordinating significant, multi-team technical initiatives with dependencies and stakeholder alignment.
• Architectural judgment: ability to design scalable, evolvable systems and articulate a clear technical roadmap.
• “You build it, you run it” experience: you have run your own services in production with monitoring, testing, and operations.
• Domain complexity: experience in a domain with significant underlying complexity; ideally flights or travel, but fintech or other complex domains are acceptable.
• Backend-heavy, full-stack comfortable: stack is roughly 80% backend, 20% frontend; comfort across both with strong backend depth. We use Python and AWS; other tools are welcome if you can demonstrate rapid learning.
• Operational maturity: experience leading observability and reliability practices; defining SLOs, handling incidents, and conducting blameless post-mortems.
• Mentorship and influence: track record of helping engineers grow through mentorship and design reviews.
• AI-driven development: experience with or strong interest in AI-augmented workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted reviews.

• Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk
• Rest and recharge with 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays
• Three medical plans to choose from with company contributions and an HSA when enrolling in an HDHP
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering dental, vision and Wellhub’s gym subscription from your start date
• Life and disability coverage from start date with optional voluntary buy-up plans
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Pet insurance discounts
• Unforgettable Perk events, including an annual summer party
• Spring Health wellbeing support with access to therapy and coaching
• 12-16 weeks paid parental leave
• 16 paid volunteering hours per year
• Up to 20 Work from Anywhere days per year
• Four-week fully paid sabbatical after 5 years
• Relocation support

Compensation for this role is a combination of salary and stock options. The anticipated base salary range is $174,000 - $205,000 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on qualifications, experience, and other job-related factors.

• AI is embedded in how we work and what we build. It spans the whole workflow:
  Notion, Jira, Git Hub and Slack are AI-connected to accelerate onboarding and daily work, including feature specification, code writing and automated AI PR review; AI also surfaces context across systems in production.
• We expect candidates to use AI tools in coding interviews. The bar is understanding your code and owning what you produce.