Engineering Manager - Birmingham

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) 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 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.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

As an Engineering Manager, this position involves:

• 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 

Required skills and experience:

• You have around 5-8 years of 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 you were a hands-on IC.

• You are a people manager who builds an effective work culture that improves the working lives of your team.

• You have experience managing larger teams where it’s necessary to build processes and systems of delegation to get work done.

• You act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally, helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineering fellows to perform at their best.

• You run effective performance reviews that celebrate achievements and help your team identify where to grow next in line with their aspirations and the needs of the business.

• Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance.

• You have the ability to adapt and react fast to an ever-changing environment.

What do we offer?

• 💰 A competitive compensation package, including equity in TravelPerk;

• 🌴 Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge;

• 💊 Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance, depending on your location;

• 🥳 Unforgettable TravelPerk events;

• 💙 A mental health support tool for your wellbeing;

• 💡Family services that include adoption benefits and equal paid parental leave; 

• 📒 Exponential growth & personal development opportunities.

• 🫶 VolunteerPerk - 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice.

• 🌎 "Work from anywhere" in the world allowance of 20 working days per year.

• 📚 IRL English or Spanish Lessons are held in the Barcelona office.

How we work

Our Vision is for a world where TravelPerk serves as the platform for human connection in-real-life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our Barcelona hub. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in-real-life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

At TravelPerk, we prioritise experience and potential over academic qualifications for this role. We believe that talent and ability aren't always reflected in formal credentials.

For certain roles, we provide relocation assistance. Please specify your need for this in your application, and we will evaluate the possibility on a case-by-case basis. English is our official office language, so we request that resumes be submitted in English for effective communication.

TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to ensure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, meaning you’re welcome at TravelPerk regardless of your appearance, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. 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.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.