Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Python

Salary: $174, per year

• We are looking for a product-minded engineer who can work end to end, from understanding customer needs with product through deployment and impact measurement.
• We need proven cross-team technical leadership on substantial, multi-team initiatives, including managing dependencies and aligning stakeholders.
• We value strong architectural judgment and the ability to design scalable, adaptable systems while balancing long-term direction with practical delivery.
• We expect experience operating services in production, including monitoring, testing, rollouts, and day-to-day reliability ownership.
• We are seeking someone with experience in complex domains, ideally flights or travel, or another constrained, customer-facing environment such as fintech.
• We want a full-stack engineer who is comfortable across both frontend and backend, with deeper strength in backend systems.
• We use Python and AWS, and we are open to other tools if you can demonstrate that you learn quickly.
• We look for operational maturity, including observability, SLOs, incident handling, and blameless post-mortems.
• We value mentorship and influence, with a track record of helping other engineers grow through design reviews, pairing, and guidance.
• We are interested in candidates with experience in, or a strong interest in, AI-augmented development workflows such as agentic coding and AI-assisted code review.

• Own the technical direction across multiple teams and help shape shared engineering priorities.
• Contribute to annual and quarterly planning with product managers, engineering managers, and other engineers.
• Spend most of the time hands-on, actively building within one or two teams while also mentoring others and removing blockers.
• Translate business objectives into engineering strategies, including identifying architectural changes needed for scale.
• Support engineers through mentorship, design feedback, pairing, and by explaining technical trade-offs to the wider business.
• Coordinate across squads and drive alignment on cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Connect dependencies, unblock delivery, and help move shared projects forward across the organisation.
• Help raise the overall engineering standard and ensure teams focus energy where it has the greatest impact.

• AI
• AWS
• Backend
• Frontend
• Support
• Python
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Git Hub
• JIRA
• REST
• Slack
• Spring

We are Perk, formerly Travel Perk, an intelligent travel and spend management platform that automates travel bookings, expenses, invoice processing, and other manual work so people can focus on real impact. We support more than 10,000 companies worldwide and are growing our engineering presence in North America as we launch a new product. Founded in 2015, we now have more than 1,800 people across 12 offices, with headquarters in London and Boston.

We work in small, autonomous teams that own their domains, and we value ownership, a 7-star experience, curiosity, purpose, and strong mindset. This role is based within commuting distance of our hubs, as we work in person three days a week, and relocation support may be available for certain roles. We offer competitive compensation and equity, 20 vacation days, 12 public holidays, medical coverage, dental and vision benefits, Wellhub gym access, life and disability cover, a 401(k) with matching, pet insurance discounts, company events, wellbeing support, paid parental leave, volunteer days, work-from-anywhere days, a paid sabbatical after five years, and relocation support.

Our base salary range for this role is $174,000 to $205,000 per year, with stock options as part of the package.

last updated 40 week of 2026